Hi, On Saturday, 20. May 2006 12:06, Joachim Schipper wrote:
> 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. I solved this out by reading the documentation on the OpenBSD website concerning rebuilding OpenBSD from source: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Xbld First, I extracted XF4.tar.gz in /usr (like the OpenBSD FAQ suggests) and made a symbolic link in /usr/src similar to like you suggested (since this can't be bad). I then patched the source with the patch: Apply by doing: cd /usr/src/XF4 patch -p0 < 002_xorg.patch And then rebuild and install X: make build But instead of following the patch instructions to rebuild and install X which in my opinion just suck, I reread the FAQ from above and followed those instructions and everything worked out fine. * First I installed the "tcl" and "tk" packages. * Then, I followed this: # rm -rf /usr/Xbld # mkdir -p /usr/Xbld # cd /usr/Xbld # lndir ../XF4 [...lots of output...] # make build [...lots of output...] This is what the patch should have been including, not the really mistakable instructions, which suggest that the source is located in /usr/src/XF4 instead of /usr/XF4 (as described in the FAQ, which a user is probably going to follow) and that all that is required to build X is running "make build". I'm going to mistrust the instructions from the patches from now on. The FAQ is the most valuable source of information I have found so far. kind regards, Tobias Weisserth
