Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-30 Thread Kurt Wall
An unnamed Administration source, Kendall Bennett, wrote: % David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % I guess you must have read something to even know about the existence % of a host.def file. I presume that it was misleading, and so should % be fixed. % % Yes, I have the file that I printed

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-28 Thread Craig Groeschel
can someone recommend the best 'grep' command fgrep '***' is the least awkward for me to type. Regards, Craig Groeschel __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-28 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On Thursday, Mar 27, 2003, at 11:02 Europe/Paris, Aidan Kehoe wrote: That would be really useful. Also, defining HasParallelMake causes a obscure build failure for me on NetBSD 1.6P; it may be worth mentioning this in the docs so other people don't have to resort to binary search on customized

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-27 Thread Aidan Kehoe
Ar an 26ú lá de mí 3, scríobh Matthieu Herrb : I'll probably merge some of its informaion into the BUILD document in the XFree86 tree if people find it useful. That would be really useful. Also, defining HasParallelMake causes a obscure build failure for me on NetBSD 1.6P; it may be worth

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-27 Thread Kendall Bennett
David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess you must have read something to even know about the existence of a host.def file. I presume that it was misleading, and so should be fixed. Yes, I have the file that I printed out sitting on my desk! As it turns out, it appears to be rather

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-27 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:01:56PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: Hi Again, I think that http://www.xfree86.org/current/BUILD.html is a reasonable introduction to building XFree86, but suggestions for improving that document are most welcome. Going through the current BUILD.html

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:01:56PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: Hi Again, I think that http://www.xfree86.org/current/BUILD.html is a reasonable introduction to building XFree86, but suggestions for improving that document are most welcome. Going through the current BUILD.html

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-27 Thread Kendall Bennett
Alan Hourihane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your obviously making good progress on getting things going, but the problems your hitting are kind of hidden to the die hard developers. Yep, a typical problem ;-) Your making observations on how some of the documentation is deficient. What I would

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2003-03-28 at 02:44, Kendall Bennett wrote: With that said, can someone recommend the best 'grep' command to use to determine if there are any errors in the World.log file? I use grep '\*\*\*' to catch the make errors. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote: Hi Guys, One area that appears to be severely lacking for the 'new' developer is guidance on how to set up the host.def file properly so that you can build XFree86 successfully on your system. The default xf86site.def is a good start, but it

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-26 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:42:03PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: Hi Guys, One area that appears to be severely lacking for the 'new' developer is guidance on how to set up the host.def file properly so that you can build XFree86 successfully on your system. The default xf86site.def is a good

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-26 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:51:13PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One area that appears to be severely lacking for the 'new' developer is guidance on how to set up the host.def file properly so that you can build XFree86 successfully on your system.

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-26 Thread Kendall Bennett
David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The general rule is don't create a host.def file unless you find you need to. It follows from this that a good default file is an empty one, hence the empty collection of sample host.def files :-). If the build fails without one, it's usually a bug. I

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

2003-03-26 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 05:11:36PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The general rule is don't create a host.def file unless you find you need to. It follows from this that a good default file is an empty one, hence the empty collection of sample host.def