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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