Re: BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:34:50PM -0500, Stuart Ballard wrote:
> I've just joined this list, but I see a few times in the archives that
> people have tried to build their own X debs. These threads seem to peter
> out without any resolution most of the time.
>
> I'm in the same situation as others who want to do this - a couple of
> bugs/features are in the latest 4.0.99.1 version of X, and I want to
> take advantage of these without losing the debian-ness of my X
> installation.
>
> I haven't had any success as yet, but I'm hoping that by pooling my
> resources with other people who are trying to do the same thing, we can
> perhaps come up with a working procedure.
>
> What I did was as follows (from memory - I may have a filename or two
> wrong, as I'm not at the relevant machine right now. Later this evening
> I can post a full log):
>
> # apt-get build-dep xserver-xfree86
> # apt-get source xserver-xfree86
> # cvs -r xf-4_0_99_1 co xc
> # tar zcvf xfree86-4.0.99.1.tar.gz xc
> # cd xfree86-4.0.2
> # mv upstream/archives/xfree*.tar.gz ..
> # mv ../xfree86-4.0.99.1.tar.gz upstream/archives
> # vi debian/scripts/patch.apply
> (comment out the "exit 1" line - some patches are bound to fail with a
> new version of the upstream source)
> # vi debian/changelog
> (add a new line for 4.0.99.1-0local1 by myself)
> # debian/rules binary-xserver
> (because I only care about the server)
>
> The build works for a while (a bunch of patches fail, but some of them
> succeed, and it gets into the build part of the process), but fails when
> trying to run (I think):
> bison -y -d pswparser.y
> The error message indicates it's looking for a file called bison.simple
> in /usr/share somewhere. The file really doesn't exist. I have the
> latest version of bison from unstable installed, and apt-cache search
> bison yielded no obvious candidates.
>
> That's where I get stuck. Any ideas, anyone?
Check bison from today 27 Feb 01, changelog mentions bison.simple
missing from a previous upload.
Gordon Sadler
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