On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> F. Heitkamp wrote:
>
> > I usually move the installed XFree to a temporary location before
> > attempting a permanent install. i.e. cd /usr/; mv X11R6 X11R6.bak;
> > cd /path/to/build; make install;
> > If the install goes off without a hitch and th
On Sunday 15 December 2002 5:12 pm, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
| Vadim Plessky wrote:
| > you can re-run 'make' in BUILD directory, and when 'make' is done (no
| > errors)- run
| > $rpm -bi --short-circuit
| > if install session succeded - run
| > $rpm -bb --short-circuit
| > and you will
Vadim Plessky wrote:
> you can re-run 'make' in BUILD directory, and when 'make' is done (no errors)-
> run
> $rpm -bi --short-circuit
> if install session succeded - run
> $rpm -bb --short-circuit
> and you will get binary RPMs.
I'll try this next time. Thanks.
I guess thats the way the Su
On Sunday 15 December 2002 09:01 am, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
[...]
>
> Unfortunately the building of RPMs does normally take twice the time as
> the make; make install build because if some files got renamed or removed
> or added, I only notice this at the end of the build and have to alter the
On Sunday 15 December 2002 3:01 pm, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
| F. Heitkamp wrote:
[...]
|
| To be able to easily switch back to erlier versions I always build
| RPMs from the CVS build. The specfile was based on the original SuSE
| packages but then heavily modified. With these RPM I was able
On Sunday 15 December 2002 9:48 am, Davor Buvinic wrote:
| On Sunday 15 December 2002 12:36 am, F. Heitkamp wrote:
| [...]
|
| > I usually move the installed XFree to a temporary location before
| > attempting a permanent install. i.e. cd /usr/; mv X11R6 X11R6.bak;
| > cd /path/to/build; make
F. Heitkamp wrote:
> I usually move the installed XFree to a temporary location before
> attempting a permanent install. i.e. cd /usr/; mv X11R6 X11R6.bak;
> cd /path/to/build; make install;
> If the install goes off without a hitch and the new X runs OK, I
> them move the saved version back and d
On Sunday 15 December 2002 12:36 am, F. Heitkamp wrote:
[...]
>
> I usually move the installed XFree to a temporary location before
> attempting a permanent install. i.e. cd /usr/; mv X11R6 X11R6.bak;
> cd /path/to/build; make install;
> If the install goes off without a hitch and the new X runs O
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:50:17PM -0600, Paul Elliott wrote:
> I was at my local LINUX group, where it was said that if you
> get the virgin XFree86 tarball, then make World;make install
> the resulting system will crash.
This is plainly false - so I wonder if they didn't say something
slightly d
Feigning erudition, Paul Elliott wrote:
%
% I was at my local LINUX group, where it was said that if you
% get the virgin XFree86 tarball, then make World;make install
% the resulting system will crash. It was said that to get an
% XFree86 system that actually works, you need the patches
% associa
Davor Buvinic wrote:
On Saturday 14 December 2002 05:50 pm, Paul Elliott wrote:
I was at my local LINUX group, where it was said that if you
get the virgin XFree86 tarball, then make World;make install
the resulting system will crash. It was said that to get an
XFree86 system that actually works
On Saturday 14 December 2002 05:50 pm, Paul Elliott wrote:
> I was at my local LINUX group, where it was said that if you
> get the virgin XFree86 tarball, then make World;make install
> the resulting system will crash. It was said that to get an
> XFree86 system that actually works, you need the p
I was at my local LINUX group, where it was said that if you
get the virgin XFree86 tarball, then make World;make install
the resulting system will crash. It was said that to get an
XFree86 system that actually works, you need the patches
associated with the various distributions. Is this True?
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