On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:33:38PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote:
> The good:
>
> After a bit of banging on things to force the circular dependancy path
> between freetype and xfree86, and cribbing from the patches written for
> 4.1.0, I'm close (very close) to having a set of patches to make xfree86
> compile cleanly on the netbsd-i386 arch.
Cool!
> The bad:
>
> It requires some extensive patching. Some of this (strnlen portability
> in xserver-wrapper.c, etc) has already been filed; the rest is waiting
> on me getting the last bits hammered out. I've tried to make the patches
> something that would be acceptable to upstream, but I have no idea if
> they really will be. The most extensive, unsuprisingly, are to NetBSD.cf,
> and are largely cribbed from linux.cf; however, changes to imake and
> other things also need to happen.
I gather that xc/config/cf/bsdLib.rules is going to be painful as well.
> The ugly:
>
> --- debian/MANIFEST.netbsd-i386 2002-10-08 07:23:56.000000000 +0000
> +++ debian/MANIFEST.netbsd-i386.new 2002-10-08 18:50:48.000000000
> +0000
> @@ -197 +196,0 @@
> -etc/X11/xkb/symbols/alt
Obsolete. See changelog.
> @@ -353 +351,0 @@
> -usr/X11R6/bin/glxinfo
I can't think of a reason this shouldn't be built. It should be
possible to build the GLX extension, and therefore this client, even
without DRI stuff.
> @@ -356,0 +355 @@
> +usr/X11R6/bin/kbd_mode
I used to see this on Sun machines. You sure it's necessary with modern
BSD kernels?
> @@ -838,2 +836,0 @@
> -usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions/xf86rush.h
> -usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions/xf86rushstr.h
Looks okay. This is the never-used Voodoo Rush extension. It builds on
Linux/i386 but I've never heard of anyone using it for anything.
> @@ -5543,2 +5539,0 @@
> -usr/X11R6/lib/libI810XvMC.a
> -usr/X11R6/lib/libI810XvMC_pic.a
This is new to XFree86 4.2. My guess is that it does something to hook
into the (Linux) kernel to speak foul magic to the hardware. XvMC is
Mark Vojkovich's motion compensation interface on top of the XVideo (Xv)
extension. I'll cautiously assume that *BSD shouldn't be building this.
> @@ -5547,2 +5541,0 @@
> -usr/X11R6/lib/libOSMesa.a
> -usr/X11R6/lib/libOSMesa.so.3.3
Nobody who builds DRI builds the offscreen Mesa library. Michel Dänzer
understands better how this stuff works. (I.e., I don't know *why* it's
called the "offscreen" Mesa library, or why 3D-accelerated GL rendering
is considered "off-the-screen". Maybe it means the rendering isn't done
into the framebuffer, a.k.a. "screen"?)
> @@ -5593 +5585,0 @@
> -usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86rush.a
Voodoo Rush extension; see above.
> @@ -5602,0 +5595 @@
> +usr/X11R6/lib/liboldX.so.6.0
This goes in xlibs-dev.files. Already listed there.
> @@ -5608 +5600,0 @@
> -usr/X11R6/lib/libxrx.so.6.3
Another extension no one uses. This is the Netscape Navigator plug in
that lets you render the X server inside a browser window or some lunacy
like that. I'm not sure there's a good reason it shouldn't build on
*BSD versus Linux, but on the other hand there's probably not a good
reason for *anyone* to build it.
> @@ -5752,0 +5745 @@
> +usr/X11R6/man/man1/kbd_mode.1x
See above.
> @@ -5754 +5746,0 @@
> -usr/X11R6/man/man1/libxrx.1x
See above.
> @@ -7449 +7441 @@
> -var/lib/xkb/README
> +var/db/xkb/README
I gather that *BSD cares not for the FHS. I remember having to persuade
David Dawes to switch Linux back to /var/lib. Apparently the BSDs had
already had enough.
> DRI support is, of course, not relevant on the NetBSD kernel, and is not
> present (and the related files have been removed already); the same goes
> for the video4linux drivers. libGL and company, which didn't compile under
> 4.1.0, now work (I think this is largely because the NetBSD port has
> upgraded to version 1.6 in the meanwhile, and this is a major cleanup of
> the NetBSD base system).
You can build libGL without DRI support. Several Linux architectures do
it.
> I'm assuming that I can find a way to weak the /var/{lib,db}/xkb/README
> location somewhere; I haven't dug into it yet.
The answer to this question depends on which altar at which Debian/*BSD
decides to worship; the FHS, or the other BSDs. Once that decision is
made I'm happy to help you out with it. There's an Imake symbol called
VarDbDirectory, I believe, which reflects the BSD experience of the
XFree86 Core Team. :)
Thanks for working on this!
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