On 11/11/10 12:41, Adam Tkac wrote:
> 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
>
Hi,
it seems that the new version of git which came with the distro update
now spews rather a lot cryptic jargon without stating what HEAD it did get.
git pull
From .
* branch server-1.7-branch -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.
So it seems that HEAD is not the HEAD but each branch has its own HEAD.
Most beasts have but one head. It seems git is modelled on the Hydra.
Unix tools tend to be silent or terse if successful as it was in
previous versions. All this output gave me the impression it was
signalling a problem or an unexpected situation.
Thanks for you help in clarifying.
Ubuntu 10.4 is back to a broken , and now useless, state with tigevnc.
It seems like it was more luck than anything that it worked with 9.10.
I had to build with -disable-dmx to get around a missing declaration in
/hw/mi/miinitext.c
and an order reversal made the patch fail.
>> nano ~/gcc/tigervnc/trunk/xorg/xserver/configure.ac.rej
>> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([dist-bzip2 foreign]) # order reversed
Having sorted that the server did connect but crashed at the first mouse
interaction. I'm concluding that tigervnc on kubuntu is a total waste of
time unless I can get into serious debugging and probably patching
ubuntu xorg.
I've had to install x11vnc to get the job done. It's not as fast but it
works.
I know you're mainly concerned with RedHat development but are you aware
of this sort of issue with (k)ubuntu ? At first I thought it was my
lack of expertise with getting the build to match but it seems like
there are fundamental problems here.
best regards. Peter.
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