On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:00:03AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:43:26PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > You're getting this mail because *BSD doesn't yet support XFree86 4.3.0. > > As you may or may not know, I have been preparing 4.3.0 packages for some > > time now, which are soon to become the official packages (an > > xfree86_4.3.0-0pre1v1 source package from the XSF is expected soonish). > > Gah. I kept meaning to get around to looking at those for you. Bad me. No worries. :) > > Unfortunately, 4.3.0 can't go into sid without all the architectures we > > support - that's where you guys come in. > > > > Porting to XFree86 isn't difficult per se, it just needs a lot of > > horsepower, and about 4gb of diskspace. The builds for your relevant > > architectures will fail once: I'll need the debian/MANIFEST.$(ARCH).new > > file, and I'll then send you an updated source package, which should > > produce a complete build. > > Hmmm. This wasn't actually my experience, with 4.2.x; some chunk of > the Imakefile stuff had to be changed to handle the concept of "BSD > kernel/libc/functions, GNU userland", and there was a chunk of changes > needed to support the concept of splitting them (or rather, having a new > arch ID). If these changes already got rolled into 4.3, though, it should > be fairly close and clean. I did merge all the 4.2.x debian/patches stuff for *BSD, into 4.3. > > If you are interested in porting the XFree86 packages to your > > architecture (this does not involve code work, most likely), please > > contact me ASAP, and I will supply you with the source line for > > preliminary 4.3.0-0pre1v1 packages. I don't want to give it out in > > public because it isn't released yet, and I fear for my uplink if I do. > > Since I did 4.2 for NetBSD, I'm happy to work on 4.3 stuff as well. I have > a build machine that can handle it (though it takes about 6 hours for a > build). I may have a few other questions for you (Branden ran out of time > to try to figure them out for 4.2) about whether certain things need to get > built, and whether they have any usefulness. :) Sure. Thanks a lot. :) > If this is the same APT source that you posted to debian-x a while back, > I'll grab it from there and try to build it in the next day or two. Nope; I've sent it to you privately. > > Thanks for your time, and I hope to hear from some of you soon. > > Not a problem. Believe me, I want a working X setup. :) Keep in mind that, > so far, we don't have either port up to the point where you could really > sanely log in and work on a console, probably, so the video stuff hasn't > gotton significant testing. The server-X stuff for 4.2 has been running on > my box for at least six months, though, and seems to be fine :) Ah, OK. Well, I'll be glad to see it completed, too. :) -- Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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