On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 16:24, Sergey V. Udaltsov wrote: > > As far as I know this is not so simple as a X server and libs. You also > > have the kernel modules... and those are tied to the kernel version & > > configuration you have. > AFAIR there is a way to build kernel modules without precise kernel > version dependance (correct me if I am wrong) - as long as all external > symbols as resolved, the module will be loaded. >
I don't know much about that.. Anyway I think that the best option is to use a share on a computer with a enough hard disk space. See below. > > If the problem you have is hard disk space (you need about 500 Mb) you > > could try to build on a remote machine disk, mounted via samba or nfs. > :) If I only had this machine:) There are only 2 machines in the company > with Linux: my laptop and server. Nobody is going to let me build > something on the server (and it does make sense:). > You don't need a Linux machine. AFAIK, a plain samba mount (i.e., a Windows share in Linux world) should be ok. If you still have problems with symbolic links just change the 'ln -s' to 'cp' and you should be fine. Unless you tell me I also don't have access to a Windows computer with 500 Mb free.. :) > > If the problem is slow/expensive internet connection I think that I it > > would be no problem if I hosted a bzipped tarball of the mach64 branch > > snapshot. > In sources? :( I am not sure it will help me (see above). BTW, what > would be the size of the archive (because traffic is an issue for me)? > I'm not sure. I think that about 20Mb... for the sources. (I don't have my laptop with me so I can't give precise figures. Anyway just give a look in the size of XFree 4.1.0 source and binaries rpms to get a good ideia.) > So, the question is: whether there is a way to build kernel modules for > "generic" 2.4.x? Will this cause trouble? Also, my second question is > still remaining: will the server and libs be compatible with XFree 4.1.0 > from RH7.2 distro? > It's possible to build the modules separately. The Redhat for instance does that in its kernel source. To answer to your 2nd question: yes. It's exactly the same distribution I have on my laptop... > Regards, > > Sergey Regards, Jose Fonseca _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
