On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:06:24PM +0200, Tobias Weisserth wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I hope this is the right place to post this.
>
> (...) I read the instructions for the second errata
> (ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.9/common/002_xorg.patch).
>
> It reads:
>
> Apply by doing:
> cd /usr/src/XF4
> patch -p0 < 002_xorg.patch
>
> And then rebuild and install X:
> make build
>
> This conflicts with what I did according to http://www.openbsd.org/
> anoncvs.html:
>
> To extract the source tree from the CD to /usr/src (assuming the CD
> is mounted on /mnt):
>
> # cd /usr/src; tar xzf /mnt/src.tar.gz
> # cd /usr; tar xzf /mnt/XF4.tar.gz
> # tar xzf /mnt/ports.tar.gz
>
> I unpacked XF4.tar.gz in /usr like the web page suggests, but the
> patch assumes the XF4 sources are located in /usr/src. So I have no /
> usr/src/XF4 directory.
>
> I assume the patch instructions are correct and the web page is
> wrong? I just moved the XF4 directory into /usr/src and applied the
> instructions from the patch. It compiled for some time and just as
> I'm writing this it aborted with multiple error code 1 messages in
> the Makefile. I guess I misunderstood something here.
>
> Can anybody help me out please? I'm a little confused about this.
> Thanks.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter where you keep X. My tree lives under
/usr/src/XF4, with a symlink from /usr/XF4 just to be sure.
I'm fairly certain both things work; the canonical way, though, is to
put XF4 under /usr.
Joachim
