Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

>How about: "Special Edition Building XFree86 for the First Time for >Compleat Morons in 24 Hours by Example Unleashed." ;-) > >Kurt Or you could link something like this. http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.org/view/cvs/x/xfree86.html ___ Devel mailing list

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

An unnamed Administration source, Kendall Bennett, wrote: % David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % % > I guess you must have read something to even know about the existence % > of a host.def file. I presume that it was misleading, and so should % > be fixed. % % Yes, I have the file that I pri

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

On Thursday, Mar 27, 2003, at 11:02 Europe/Paris, Aidan Kehoe wrote: That would be really useful. Also, defining HasParallelMake causes a obscure build failure for me on NetBSD 1.6P; it may be worth mentioning this in the docs so other people don't have to resort to binary search on customized

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote: > I would be happy to make updates to the BUILD file and submit the > improvements back (who would I submit my patches to?). Please use the bugzilla at http://bugs.xfree86.org. > Finally some of the issues I have had are simply that the good > document

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:36:31PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > I ususally end up searching for *** in the logs (which of course requires > doing /\*\*\* in less/vi/more/etc), but I think that's an artifact of > certain make implementations and not universal. standard vi won't help much, sin

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

> can someone recommend the best 'grep' command fgrep '***' is the least awkward for me to type. Regards, Craig Groeschel __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ___

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

On Fre, 2003-03-28 at 02:44, Kendall Bennett wrote: > > With that said, can someone recommend the best 'grep' command to use to > determine if there are any errors in the World.log file? I use grep '\*\*\*' to catch the make errors. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (pow

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:01:56PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: Going through the current BUILD.html file again I see that things are a lot clearer now. However one thing that needs to be explained is the section that says 'When the build is finished, you should check the W

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

Alan Hourihane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your obviously making good progress on getting things going, but the > problems your hitting are kind of hidden to the die hard developers. Yep, a typical problem ;-) > Your making observations on how some of the documentation is > deficient. What I wo

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:01:56PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: > Hi Again, > > > > I think that is a > > > reasonable introduction to building XFree86, but suggestions for > > > improving that document are most welcome. > > Going through the current

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:01:56PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: > Hi Again, > > > > I think that is a > > > reasonable introduction to building XFree86, but suggestions for > > > improving that document are most welcome. > > Going through the current

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

Hi Again, > > I think that is a > > reasonable introduction to building XFree86, but suggestions for > > improving that document are most welcome. Going through the current BUILD.html file again I see that things are a lot clearer now. However one th

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess you must have read something to even know about the existence > of a host.def file. I presume that it was misleading, and so should > be fixed. Yes, I have the file that I printed out sitting on my desk! As it turns out, it appears to be rather o

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

Ar an 26ú lá de mí 3, scríobh Matthieu Herrb : > I'll probably merge some of its informaion into the BUILD document in > the XFree86 tree if people find it useful. That would be really useful. Also, defining HasParallelMake causes a obscure build failure for me on NetBSD 1.6P; it may be worth

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 05:11:36PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: >David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The general rule is "don't create a host.def file unless you find >> you need to". It follows from this that a good "default" file is >> an empty one, hence the empty collection of sample

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The general rule is "don't create a host.def file unless you find > you need to". It follows from this that a good "default" file is > an empty one, hence the empty collection of sample host.def files > :-). If the build fails without one, it's usually a b

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:51:13PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: >Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > One area that appears to be severely lacking for the 'new' developer is >> > guidance on how to set up the host.def file properly so that you can >> > build XFree86 successfully on y

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:42:03PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: >Hi Guys, > >One area that appears to be severely lacking for the 'new' developer is >guidance on how to set up the host.def file properly so that you can >build XFree86 successfully on your system. The default xf86site.def is a >g

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One area that appears to be severely lacking for the 'new' developer is > > guidance on how to set up the host.def file properly so that you can > > build XFree86 successfully on your system. The default xf86site.def is a > > good start, but it does

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote: > Hi Guys, > > One area that appears to be severely lacking for the 'new' developer is > guidance on how to set up the host.def file properly so that you can > build XFree86 successfully on your system. The default xf86site.def is a > good start, but

Re: XFree86 host.def file questions

Kendall Bennett wrote (in a message from Wednesday 26) > > Perhaps a good start would be to have a directory with sample host.def > files in it, especially a good 'default' file that can be used to build a > complete XFree86 system on Linux and FreeBSD for instance. That is where > a lot o

XFree86 host.def file questions

Hi Guys, One area that appears to be severely lacking for the 'new' developer is guidance on how to set up the host.def file properly so that you can build XFree86 successfully on your system. The default xf86site.def is a good start, but it doesn't really explain things since everything is es