On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, David Dawes wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 01:53:57PM -0600, Ted Spradley wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> what is mkdirheir? I just tried an apropos, locate, find and info search > >> for it and can't find it. Is is a *BSD command? > >> Cheers, > >> Oisin > > > >It's a spelling error. Sorry. /usr/X11R6/bin/mkdirhier, or > >xc/config/util/mkdirhier.* in the sources. Somewhere just a few weeks > >ago I found some instructions about building X11 from sources that > >recommended building a tree of symlinks using mkdirhier (it's been part > >of X11 for many years), but I can't find it just now. Probably on the > > I think you mean 'lndir'. mkdirhier just does what 'mkdir -p' does, > and the build/install process may use it on (old) platforms that have > mkdir that doesn't support the -p flag. > > >XFree86.org web site, or maybe in the (obsolete) INSTALL-X.org. The > >mkdirhier man page is no help at all (I just checked). > > There's some build information at <http://www.xfree86.org/current/BUILD.html>.
Thanks Ted and David, useful info. -Oisin _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
