On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:50:12PM +0100, ti...@piments.com wrote:
> On 11/09/10 16:22, Adam Tkac wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:40:28PM +0100, ti...@piments.com wrote:
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>there seems to be a problem with the instructions in unix/README given
> >>to recover xorg tree
> >>
> >># git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver xorg
> >>Initialized empty Git repository in /root/gcc/xorg/.git/
> >>remote: Counting objects: 114576, done.
> >>remote: Compressing objects: 100% (27396/27396), done.
> >>remote: Total 114576 (delta 91875), reused 107735 (delta 86267)
> >>Receiving objects: 100% (114576/114576), 33.36 MiB | 296 KiB/s, done.
> >>Resolving deltas: 100% (91875/91875), done.
> >>
> >># cd xorg
> >>
> >># git checkout origin/server-1.5-branch
> >>Note: checking out 'origin/server-1.5-branch'.
> >>
> >>You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
> >>changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
> >>state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout.
> >>
> >>If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
> >>do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
> >>
> >> git checkout -b new_branch_name
> >>
> >>HEAD is now at e1edd9e... security: Grant untrusted windows remove
> >>access on all windows.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>So either my head has become detached ;) or the instructions need updating.
> >>
> >>git version 1.7.0.4
> >>
> >>I can't make out from git --help what this needs to be now.
> >>
> >>Any hints on an update for the instructions?
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >does it cause any problem when HEAD is in detached state? You can
> >simply copy ("cp -r") all sources and compile Xvnc, can't you?
> >
> >Regards, Adam
> >
> Thanks Adam,
>
> I may be misinterpreting but I would have thought that this meant I
> was getting current xorg-server HEAD not the 1.7branch that matches
> the system I'm building on.
>
> My aim was to get as close to the running system (kubuntu 10.4)
> since the doc suggests to get as close as possible to get libvnc to
> work.
>
> Is that not what I need to do or am I mistaken about what HEAD is ?
If you need X.Org git repo only for building Xvnc then
`git checkout <branch_name>` (where branch_name is
origin/server-1.7-branch in you case) is enough. Then simply copy the
whole X.Org source to tigervnc/unix/xserver.
Regards, Adam
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