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...
you can use "make Everything" : this will rebuild less things that "make World". I think a single "make" is OK also : it will rebuild even less, though you could encounter problems if you have changed config file. So in summary : if only source files have changed since last compil you can use "make" alone, if config files have changed use "make Everything" and if you want to be on the safe side just use "make World".
I hope someone will correct me ;-)
Bye
Manu
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