On Monday, March 10, 2008 2:02 am Thomas Fritzsche wrote: > Hi Jesse, > > thanks for the x.org wiki-page. > The other day I also tried to follow-up on the krh's blog, but as you > mentioned, all this proto & libs really send me in a dependency hell. > I like to build git x-server (intel), but with latest Ubuntu (7.10). > It looked like I need to compile a larger sub-set of the X module > tree. (Ubuntu headers too old :-( ) > > I tried some the scripts downloading the complete module tree, but > always got stuck with some errors (missing dependencies or program > error in exotic driver etc.). > > What would be really cool, is to have a shell scrip that just selects > modules really needed and that are (hopefully) more or less stable. > Maybe even a script taking care about Mesa and DRI as well. > > I'm sure, a lot of guys like to test git, but just get stuck.
Yeah, that might be handy. You'd need to go through the list of required modules from the X server's configure.ac and make a script to download all the required git trees. Please add whatever info you find to the page if you end up finding time to do this (jg already added a few more notes, maybe those will help you too). Thanks, Jesse ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
