On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:46:35AM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:29:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I confess I haven't researched this much (no googling), but a quick
> > search of the docs didn't reveal the answer, so I'll ask. Is there
> > a way to build XFree86 outside of the xc source tree that doesn't
> > involve black magic, speaking in tongues, chicken feet, bloodletting,
> > or other deep arcana? I'm thinking here of something akin to the GCc
> > build process that lets you unpack the sources in one directory,
> > say, $HOME/gcc-3.2, then configure and build in another directory,
> > say, $HOME/gcc-build.
>
> The recomended way for the DRI project is:
>
> mkdir build
> cd build
> lndir -silent -ignorelinks ../xc
> make -C xc World
Thanks, Ian. This appears to be working. I had to say
"make -C ../xc World" in order to tell make where the Makefiles were.
[~/sources]$ mkdir build
[~/sources]$ cd build
[~/sources/build]$ lndir -silent -ignorelinks ../xc
[~/sources/build]$ make -C ../xc World
> One caveat with this is that lndir is part of XFree86 (i.e., there is some
> assuption that you already have at least a partial xfree86 installation).
Yup, I had lndir.
Kurt
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