Re: building XF4 Server and driver so only?
Steven Hanley wrote:
> If I have the rsync of Ani Joshi's xfree tree and I have X402src-1.tgz how
> can I go about building and then installing (possibly by hand) only the X
> Server and the driver for the graphics card?
cp xc/config/cf/{xf86site,host}.def
vim xc/config/cf/host.def
Set #define BuildServersOnly to YES, edit the drivers you want to build, etc.
make World 2>&1|tee log
grep '\*\*\*' log
If this yields any results, check what the errors were.
make install
Done. :)
> X is a network protocol, and as it is still a 6.* release it has not changed
> drastically or anything, so I assume I can have all the 2.2r2 clients
> installed and libraries and such, and upgrade only the server.
Correct. I ran that setup for a long time.
Michel
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
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