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Re: XFree86 3.3.2 status report.



Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu> writes:

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> On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 12:22:23AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> > Bad news first.  For some reason XF86Setup is not building (as in
> > not building *at all*, not just failing to be moved into the right
> > place for stuffing into a .deb).  This causes build failure of the
> > xserver-vga16 package.  All the other standard i386 .debs are on master
> > in /debian2/tmp/xfree86 , for those developers who need them or just
> > can't wait.  These are "unofficial" -1's, so it's your responsibility to
> > install the real -1's over them when they materialize.
> 
> Aha! I found out why XF86Setup wasn't building, and it wasn't my fault!
> (At least, not exactly.  If I'd read docs instead of scratching my chin for
> a while after digging through the source code, I'd have had the answer
> sooner but learned less.)

Cool.  Is there any chance we can work this into the 2.0 install?
XF86Setup is really nice (much nicer that the configuration programs
that Debian and Red Hat currently use).

(The is X configuration is still handled in the postinstall script,
isn't it?)


Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu


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