Davor Buvinic wrote:
On Saturday 14 December 2002 05:50 pm, Paul Elliott wrote:I was at my local LINUX group, where it was said that if you get the virgin XFree86 tarball, then make World;make install the resulting system will crash. It was said that to get an XFree86 system that actually works, you need the patches associated with the various distributions. Is this True? Thank you.
I'm working with current CVS without any patch and I don't see any crash. Frequently the distribution maintainers include patches to fix some issues with hardware but generally they also send it to the XFree86 developers so they are integrated into the main tree.
I too have successfully installed X from CVS numerous times.
You should probably check for a custom host.def in your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config directory. I suppose there may
I think that the proper way to build XFree86, before do a 'make World', is at least read the documentation included in the distribution and look at the configuration options in xc/config/cf. Tell this to the folks at your local LUG.
be a custom one there. You could use that for the new build.
I usually move the installed XFree to a temporary location before
attempting a permanent install. i.e. cd /usr/; mv X11R6 X11R6.bak;
cd /path/to/build; make install;
If the install goes off without a hitch and the new X runs OK, I
them move the saved version back and do a make install over the
top. I've noticed that sometimes even though the make World goes
off without a hitch the make install will sometimes fail.
Fred
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