<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 22:13 -0500, zt.tmzt@gmail.com wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> While I only recently discovered the -l option to build.sh, I find it immensly helpful in building a set of protos and libraries for various architectures/processors in a build root. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> This is good to know. The goal was not remove this feature, but to provide a more flexible way. Read on. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>   The alternative is near verbose a setup as building and installing every library and proto from git manually, which is what I was doing prior to discovering this option. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Can you give us your opinion on this: <BLOCKQUOTE> $ util/modular/build.sh -L > modlist.txt <PRE> [edit modlist.txt: either delete lines or comment them out with a hash '#'] $ util/modular/build.sh $PREFIX --modfile modlist.txt </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Reference: <A HREF="http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide#BestPractices">http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide#BestPractices</A> This recent addition was meant exactly for your scenario. Even better, you are not bound by what build.sh thinks is the right set of modules for you. There would be nothing wrong with keeping the -l in parallel with this more flexible feature. We were concerned that "too many options" would be detrimental. We need user's input on that. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On a more general note, this makes it more difficult for someone to begin working with the X codebase, as they may be focused on a single driver or the xserver/DDXs themselves, building able to install all of the prerequesites in one go is of great utility. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> That's why we are actively maintaining build.sh <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> My use case: I am building X for an arm processor, including all of the libraries it requires in a static configuration in a tree under /opt -- tmzt _______________________________________________ <A HREF="mailto:xorg-devel@lists.x.org">xorg-devel@lists.x.org</A>: X.Org development Archives: <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel</A> Info: <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>