On Thursday, June 5, 2003 4:04 pm, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Kentropy wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'd like to know where to find instructions about
> > howto install Xfree from scratch.
> > Could someone help me please ?
> > TIA
>
>    From scratch meaning from source?
>
>    Download the src packages from ftp.xfree86.org.  Unpack.
> Go into the /xc directory and do "make World".  If that succeeds
> (it should), type "make install".   Run ldconfig and you should
> have a complete and working XFree86 installation.

While we're on the subject, what target do I use (the default?) to resume a 
build previously interrupted?  make World seems to start off by deleting 
*everything*, regardless of whether it really needs to be rebuilt.  On my 
slow systems, this deleting seems rather pointless, so I think I'd like to 
skip it by default...

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