Re: pixman and perl
Dan wrote: Interesting. Personally, I don't like Python. That is to say, I've learned a bit of Python, and I don't like programming in it. But as Python is used by my distribution's package management system ( Gentoo ), I have Python installed on my system, and I've never really thought more about it. What did Perl do to you anyway? Just curious. It may seem strange, but I don't like perl because of the way it must be installed. As far as I remember, it has not a configure script and a makefile. Also, I prefer my system to be made of packages written in as few languages as possible, possibly C only. ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: pixman and perl
John Taylor wrote: Dan wrote: Interesting. Personally, I don't like Python. That is to say, I've learned a bit of Python, and I don't like programming in it. But as Python is used by my distribution's package management system ( Gentoo ), I have Python installed on my system, and I've never really thought more about it. What did Perl do to you anyway? Just curious. It may seem strange, but I don't like perl because of the way it must be installed. As far as I remember, it has not a configure script and a makefile. Umm... I'm pretty sure Larry Wall invented configure scripts, originally for rn, then perl - and then the GNU project built autoconf to make creating them easier for the rest of us. Perhaps you're confusing perl with something else? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: pixman and perl
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Justin P. Mattock wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: John Taylor wrote: Dan wrote: Interesting. Personally, I don't like Python. That is to say, I've learned a bit of Python, and I don't like programming in it. But as Python is used by my distribution's package management system ( Gentoo ), I have Python installed on my system, and I've never really thought more about it. What did Perl do to you anyway? Just curious. It may seem strange, but I don't like perl because of the way it must be installed. As far as I remember, it has not a configure script and a makefile. Umm... I'm pretty sure Larry Wall invented configure scripts, originally for rn, then perl - and then the GNU project built autoconf to make creating them easier for the rest of us. Perhaps you're confusing perl with something else? In any case I guess just hack pkgconfiig i.g. /usr/lib*/pkgconfig/*.pc ( to pass configure) but then unfortunately depending how your build is, you could run into issues later on down the line, or maybe during the build i.g. -lpython etc.. try it out and see(personally seems more work to do so, but then again seems interesting). To bypass the perl detection without editing configure, it's just a matter of symlinking /usr/bin/perl to something else, or create a fake /usr/bin/perl, since configure just checks if 'perl' is present. Anyway, Perl is widely used by many things, like Autoconf and Automake. On the other hand, I rarely touch anything Python-based, and didn't have it installed for years until recently. I also had to install Ruby just to run an autogen.sh... ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: pixman and perl
Stephan Raue wrote: Hi John, i dont think pixman need perl. i can compile Xorg without perl. I have pixman-0.16.2. During the configure stage, it clearly says: configure: error: Perl is required to build pixman. I hope I'm wrong. ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: pixman and perl
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, John Taylor wrote: Stephan Raue wrote: Hi John, i dont think pixman need perl. i can compile Xorg without perl. I have pixman-0.16.2. During the configure stage, it clearly says: configure: error: Perl is required to build pixman. I hope I'm wrong. The perl references are in pixman/Makefile.am. Looking at pixman-combine32.c, you should only need perl if compiling from git. When I run make using the 0.16.2 tarball, there is no sign of perl in the build sequence. ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: pixman and perl
Excerpts from Frédéric L. W. Meunier's message of Thu Oct 22 20:09:11 +0200 2009: On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, John Taylor wrote: Stephan Raue wrote: Hi John, i dont think pixman need perl. i can compile Xorg without perl. I have pixman-0.16.2. During the configure stage, it clearly says: configure: error: Perl is required to build pixman. I hope I'm wrong. The perl references are in pixman/Makefile.am. Looking at pixman-combine32.c, you should only need perl if compiling from git. When I run make using the 0.16.2 tarball, there is no sign of perl in the build sequence. Half correct. ./configure still checks for perl unconditionally, and aborts if it's not found, see configure.ac:129. -- Exherbo KDE, X.org maintainer ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: pixman and perl
John == John Taylor pi00100...@gmail.com writes:
John I have pixman-0.16.2. During the configure stage, it clearly says:
John configure: error: Perl is required to build pixman.
A quick git grep shows that $(srcdir)/make-combine.pl is used to create
the four files pixman/pixman-combine{32,64}.{c,h} from the template
files pixman/pixman-combine.{c,h}.template.
You should be able to do that manually with sed(1), awk(1) or your
favourite text editor.
Then edit out the check for perl in configure.ac or configure.
It is a sufficiently complex conversion that I can see why Søren
wrote it in Perl.
You will need pixman to compile/run the Xorg server and cairo.
-JimC
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Re: pixman and perl
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:54:49 +0200, John Taylor pi00100...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm trying to manually build X.org, but I'm stuck with pixman. It says it needs perl, but I really don't want perl on my system (I hate it). Is there any known workaround? Either disabling pixman or perl dependency for example? Interesting. Personally, I don't like Python. That is to say, I've learned a bit of Python, and I don't like programming in it. But as Python is used by my distribution's package management system ( Gentoo ), I have Python installed on my system, and I've never really thought more about it. What did Perl do to you anyway? Just curious. Dan ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
