Re: Script for compiling Xorg

2007-08-03 Thread DJ Lucas
Simon Geard wrote: > > If the instructions aren't part of a script, what exactly does the "bash > -e" step contribute? Start a new shell for running commands in, which > should exit any time one of them fails? The -e might be useful in an > shell script (i.e the #!/bin/bash case), but what's the

Re: Script for compiling Xorg

2007-08-03 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 05:01 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Simon Geard wrote these words on 08/03/07 04:32 CST: > > > If the instructions aren't part of a script, what exactly does the "bash > > -e" step contribute? Start a new shell for running commands in, which > > should exit any time one of t

Re: Urgent : big doubt about Xorg prefix

2007-08-03 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Le Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:30:33 -0400 Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > If BLFS says /usr, it means /usr. If it says /usr/X11R6, it means > /usr/X11R6. Yes missie. OK, so there's nothing wrong with what I did. If I said it was urgent, it is just because I would like to go to bed being su

Re: Urgent : big doubt about Xorg prefix

2007-08-03 Thread Randy McMurchy
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote these words on 08/03/07 19:26 CST: > I'd like to correct a possible error as soon as possible I'm not really sure there is an error to begin with. :-) > : in the SVN > BLFS book, Xfree is installed in /usr/X11R6, but in the Xorg > instructions, it is said that you have th

Re: Urgent : big doubt about Xorg prefix

2007-08-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 8/3/07, Nicolas FRANCOIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to correct a possible error as soon as possible : in the SVN > BLFS book, Xfree is installed in /usr/X11R6, but in the Xorg > instructions, it is said that you have the choice for XORG_PREFIX > between /usr or /opt (and every other

Re: Urgent : big doubt about Xorg prefix

2007-08-03 Thread Chris Staub
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: > Hi. > > I'd like to correct a possible error as soon as possible : in the SVN > BLFS book, Xfree is installed in /usr/X11R6, but in the Xorg > instructions, it is said that you have the choice for XORG_PREFIX > between /usr or /opt (and every other thing, if you dare). >

Urgent : big doubt about Xorg prefix

2007-08-03 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Hi. I'd like to correct a possible error as soon as possible : in the SVN BLFS book, Xfree is installed in /usr/X11R6, but in the Xorg instructions, it is said that you have the choice for XORG_PREFIX between /usr or /opt (and every other thing, if you dare). Is it really /usr, or /usr/X11R6 ? I

Re: Script for compiling Xorg

2007-08-03 Thread Randy McMurchy
Simon Geard wrote these words on 08/03/07 04:32 CST: > If the instructions aren't part of a script, what exactly does the "bash > -e" step contribute? Start a new shell for running commands in, which > should exit any time one of them fails? The -e might be useful in an > shell script (i.e the #!/

Re: Script for compiling Xorg

2007-08-03 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 06:58 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > This is sort of a compromise area. The last time I worked on it, I > almost added the shebang in. But, as Randy says, the BLFS intention is > for you to be pasting the commands into a shell. Here, though, it > actually says to write a script