On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:42:03PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: >Hi Guys, > >One area that appears to be severely lacking for the 'new' developer is >guidance on how to set up the host.def file properly so that you can >build XFree86 successfully on your system. The default xf86site.def is a >good start, but it doesn't really explain things since everything is >essentially commented out. You don't really know what stuff you *should* >define to get a standard build on different systems. > >Perhaps a good start would be to have a directory with sample host.def >files in it, especially a good 'default' file that can be used to build a >complete XFree86 system on Linux and FreeBSD for instance. That is where >a lot of developers could really use a default they can just copy to >host.def and then do a 'make World'.
The general rule is "don't create a host.def file unless you find you need to". It follows from this that a good "default" file is an empty one, hence the empty collection of sample host.def files :-). If the build fails without one, it's usually a bug. David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
