Re: compiling xfree86

[Matt Garman <garman@crh3019.urh.uiuc.edu>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 02:00:38PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote:
> Could anyone offer any advice or pointers as for how to custom compile
> xfree86 as a debian package?  I want to compile using egcc and only
> include support for the video driver that I need (trying to make it a
> bit leaner).  Also, I want the libraries to be "thread-safe" because
> apparently the default Debian xlibs are not compiled to be thread
> safe.

I'm getting somewhere with this, but, now I run into the following
error:

cd ./config/makedepend && rm -f -r Makefile Makefile.dep makedepend
*.o bootstra
p
cd ./config/makedepend && make -f Makefile.proto bootstrap
make[3]: Entering directory
`/mnt/slackware/home/garman/xf/xfree86-3.3.2.3a/conf
ig/makedepend'
Makefile.proto:43: *** missing separator.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/slackware/home/garman/xf/xfree86-3.3.2.3a/confi
g/makedepend'
make[2]: *** [depend.bootstrap] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/slackware/home/garman/xf/xfree86-3.3.2.3a'
make[1]: *** [World] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/slackware/home/garman/xf/xfree86-3.3.2.3a'
make: *** [build] Error 2

I tried editing that Makefile.proto file, but somehow my changes are
overwritten; I could delete the file and it would just get replaced
with the non-working file.

Any help?

MG

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