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Re: Xorg and apt-build



On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 03:17:33 -0700 (MST), Didier Caamano
<nemesisdivina@gennux.ca> wrote:
> Hello, I just installed debian testing, and went to install xorg and I
> apt-cache search didn't find it, went to the debian site and looked for
> packages and didn't find it there either.
> 
> Is it xorg supported in Debian? if it's so, do I need to add any line to
> my source list? if 's not, why is supported?
> 

IIRC, attempt to package Xorg for Debian will start after Sarge release.

> I also installed apt-build, everything went smoothly, it downloaded,
> installed, configured as only debian knows how, happiness was everywhere,
> then I went to install a software, and it stop saying that it needed a
> certain parameter in line 6 of apt-build.conf. I went and look the file,
> everything is as I specified in the configuration "wizard" except that the
> sixth line say options= and nothing else. I understand that that line is
> for passing GCC options but I'm not quite good as to know which options
> are those, where to find them or which one is the more appropriate to my
> computer. I have a athlon-xp 2500+ core barton.
> 
> Any suggestion in this topic will be appreciated, good night everyone
> 

You said it, so "man gcc" to list (all?) the options. Probably you
want to enable architecture or CPU type, extesion like 3dnow or sse...


Andrea



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