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.

If I dpkg-source -x *.dsc for the xfree86 source package, then (as
root) just go into the source directory and do a "debian/rules binary"
the build fails with the following error:

(cd debian ; gcc -O2 -o xserver-wrapper -g xserver-wrapper.c)
touch build
set -e; for i in debian/create-compat-* ; do echo $i; $i ; done; set
+e
debian/create-compat-xlib6
/bin/sh: debian/create-compat-xlib6: Permission denied
make: *** [binary-compat] Error 1

And then it just stops.

Any hints?

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Matt Garman, garman@uiuc.edu
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