On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Dirk Wallenstein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:47:52PM -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 17:05 +0200, Dirk Wallenstein wrote: >> >> X-JHBuild can generate a list of modules to skip for your current or >> another platform/os combination. It does so implicitly with the >> 'init' >> subcommand for the current system. >> >> Pardon me as I am not familiar with X-JBuild. What is needed for new >> contributors who follow build instructions for the first time is a list >> modules for X (similar to what is in build.sh or tinderbox) and run it >> on whatever platform they build on without breakage or manual >> intervention. They are not even aware some modules build only on some >> platforms. >> This would go a long way in giving people a good first impression. > > Concerning build instructions: For the last release it's all in the > README in the package attached here [1]. In the upcoming release it's > just 'git clone' and 'make install'. > > For a HTML-tinderbox-log-first-impression, after installation, just do: > cd <source-destination-path> > xjh init > xjh tinderwrap [list-of-modules-you-want-with-deps] > That's all. Omitting a list of modules will build all of Xorg. Modules > that can't be build will be skipped. The result is in the INSTALL > subdirectory. It is possible to easily work with multiple > repository-groups (think about a pure testing repo-group and one for > your own work). Plug-ins can be any executable, and they can get their > context info from the environment. The -h/--help options of the main > script and the subcommand contain a lot of more info. > > Matt did test x-jhbuild before the init subcommand existed. The issues > he faced are no longer a problem.
I'll verify that. I'm using x-jhbuild now with no problems. (now watch that I've jinxed myself.) Matt _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
