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Date:      Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:46:25 -0600
From:      Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com>
To:        llewelly@xmission.com
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: compiling XFree86 4.4.0
Message-ID:  <20040309224625.64a37087@vixen42.>
In-Reply-To: <s3rllm9rzg5.fsf@xmission.xmission.com>
References:  <20040309202637.05eecfd1@vixen42.> <s3rllm9rzg5.fsf@xmission.xmission.com>

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On 09 Mar 2004 23:25:14 -0700
llewelly@xmission.com wrote:

> Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com> writes:
> 
> > How would I go about compiling XFree86 4.4.0?
> 
> Did you read: http://xfree86.org/4.4.0/BUILD.html ?

Cool, thanks. Some how I totally missed that  :P
 
> 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.

The only one I can think of that would really be affected by this
would be the nvidia driver, which would require a rebuild and
reinstall. Hmm, that and the wrapper package.

> 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.
> 
> 
> 



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