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Date:      Sun, 18 Mar 2001 08:47:12 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RE: installing X11 sources?
Message-ID:  <20010318084712.A5342@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <p050019abb6d9d8795e20@[192.168.168.205]>; from rdm@cfcl.com on Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 07:19:14PM -0800
References:  <XFMail.010317205141.conrads@home.com> <p050019abb6d9d8795e20@[192.168.168.205]>

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On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 07:19:14PM -0800, Rich Morin wrote:
> Peculiarly, I'm not really all that interested in getting the latest
> X11 sources.  In fact, we don't even use X11, locally.  What I wanted
> was a snapshot of the exact source tree that was used to create the
> X11R6 binaries that were distributed with FreeBSD 4.2.  I was planning
> to use this to build linkage information for The FreeBSD Browser:
> 
>    http://www.cfcl.com/Meta/md_fb.html
> 
> Now, I'm not quite sure what to do.  I guess I'll grab the current
> version from the ports collection and hope it's not too different...
> 

Simply use the ports collection that came with 4.2-release and do a 
'make patch'. That should result in exactly the same source as was used to
build the binaries which came with 4.2

(There are just a couple of small bugfixes that have been applied since 4.2
so the latest should do fairly well too.)

-- 
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se


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