Done as Alan said. rm /hw/xfree86/Xorg , then rebuild and install. The modificaiotn to main takes effect. The dependency is not build well for this. Ajax, how to do solve this?
Thanks Frank Message: 8 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:19:25 -0400 From: Adam Jackson <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A question for Xserver debug To: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> Cc: "Huang, FrankR" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 06:20 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Huang, FrankR wrote: > > Hi,all > > > > I am debugging the xserver code now. But one thing has > > puzzled me. > > > > When I add some modification to /dix/main.c , then make & > > make install. Though the new main.c file has been compiled, no > > modification effect display. > > > > After that, I do some modification to > > /hw/xfree86/common/xf86Init.c. Do the same steps. The modification to > > main.c displays at the same time. Why this happens?? > > No one has ever gone through the exercise of ensuring the complex > dependencies are properly setup to force rebuilding the Xorg server > any time any related file changes. Sometimes you just have to > manually rm hw/xfree86/Xorg and then make install. If this annoys > you, we're happy to review proposed patches to improve it. I did add the 'relink' target for this reason. - ajax _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
