Previously, the X builds have used various GNU tools from the
Companion CD in order to build (gmake, automake, autoconf, etc.)
When Xorg 7.2 integrates, it will require newer versions of the
tools than the Companion CD currently provides, but JDS already
has new enough tools in their CBE packages, so we will leverage
their work and adopt their tools.
These tools have been installed for the last couple of builds on
the X build machines and worked without fail there, so we are now
formalizing the requirement.
The X build environment instructions have been updated to reflect
this:
For freetype, xscreensaver, and various Xorg modular compoents:
- GNU make, gettext, automake, autoconf, libtool:
Download and install the JDS CBE tools from:
<http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/contributing/building/>
You may need to add /opt/jdsbld/bin to your path if you are building
individual subdirectories - the X build scripts will automatically
add it when doing full builds. (If you're on your own machine with
the Companion CD tools installed as well, you'll probably need it
ahead of /opt/sfw/bin in your path - the X build machines have had
the Companion CD versions of these tools removed to avoid finding
the wrong ones. They do also install GNU versions of several basic
commands, such as ls, diff, etc. so be careful to put it behind /usr/bin
in your $PATH if you prefer the Solaris versions.)
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
