On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 02:00:38PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > Could anyone offer any advice or pointers as for how to custom compile > xfree86 as a debian package? I want to compile using egcc and only > include support for the video driver that I need (trying to make it a > bit leaner). Also, I want the libraries to be "thread-safe" because > apparently the default Debian xlibs are not compiled to be thread > safe.
I'm getting somewhere with this, but, now I run into the following error: cd ./config/makedepend && rm -f -r Makefile Makefile.dep makedepend *.o bootstra p cd ./config/makedepend && make -f Makefile.proto bootstrap make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/slackware/home/garman/xf/xfree86-3.3.2.3a/conf ig/makedepend' Makefile.proto:43: *** missing separator. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/slackware/home/garman/xf/xfree86-3.3.2.3a/confi g/makedepend' make[2]: *** [depend.bootstrap] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/slackware/home/garman/xf/xfree86-3.3.2.3a' make[1]: *** [World] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/slackware/home/garman/xf/xfree86-3.3.2.3a' make: *** [build] Error 2 I tried editing that Makefile.proto file, but somehow my changes are overwritten; I could delete the file and it would just get replaced with the non-working file. Any help? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me." -- Dickey Betts, "Ramblin' Man"