From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 22:25:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5259216A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:25:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mgr2.xmission.com (mgr2.xmission.com [198.60.22.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AFF643D39 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:25:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from llewelly@xmission.com) Received: from [198.60.22.201] (helo=mgr1.xmission.com) by mgr2.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1B0x9W-0004mf-02; Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:25:14 -0700 Received: from [198.60.22.20] (helo=xmission.xmission.com) by mgr1.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B0x9W-0006DM-RZ; Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:25:14 -0700 Received: from llewelly by xmission.xmission.com with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B0x9W-0000i9-00; Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:25:14 -0700 To: Vulpes Velox References: <20040309202637.05eecfd1@vixen42.> From: llewelly@xmission.com Date: 09 Mar 2004 23:25:14 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20040309202637.05eecfd1@vixen42.> Message-ID: Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mgr1.xmission.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=8.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: llewelly@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 3.1 (built Wed Aug 20 09:38:54 PDT 2003) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compiling XFree86 4.4.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:25:18 -0000 Vulpes Velox writes: > How would I go about compiling XFree86 4.4.0? Did you read: http://xfree86.org/4.4.0/BUILD.html ? After you are done there, read xc/xc/config/cf/host.def and /xc/xc/config/cf/site.def in the source directory. The only fbsd-specific caveat I can think of is that by default 'make install' installs to /usr/X11R6, potentially overwriting the files installed by ports and or packages. I don't have enough experience with freebsd to know how serious a problem that might be. I avoided that by #defining ProjectRoot in xc/xc/config/cf/host.def, and uncommenting '#define NothingOutsideProjectRoot YES' and '#define EtcX11Directory ProjectRoot/etc' in xc/xc/config/cf/site.def . The other obvious alternative would be to deinstall your existing xf86 4.3.0 packages and/or ports before installed 4.4.0 from source. I didn't do this in part becase I didn't want to figure out what to do about all the packages which ddepend on those.