<!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 Thu, 2010-11-25 at 22:54 -0500, zt.tmzt@gmail.com wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Peter Hutterer <<A HREF="mailto:peter.hutterer@who-t.net">peter.hutterer@who-t.net</A>> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:59:38PM -0500, <A HREF="mailto:zt.tmzt@gmail.com">zt.tmzt@gmail.com</A> wrote: >> > Can you give us your opinion on this: >> > >> > $ util/modular/build.sh -L > modlist.txt >> > >> > [edit modlist.txt: either delete lines or comment them out with a hash '#'] >> > $ util/modular/build.sh $PREFIX --modfile modlist.txt >> >> Sure, I've been working more with this is in the last few days.  I >> think it would be more useful if there was a quick way to build all >> server prereqs, but not drivers and input.  Something like -o lib >> would work, except the script doesn't appear to have an internal list >> of the components belonging to that set.  jhbuild is more complicated >> to setup and not much better for cross compiling. > > each module has a number of configure flags, so there is no simple list for > "build all server prereqs". especially in your case, which is rather far > from the default. > e.g.: if you're only building the Xorg DDX, then you don't need libX11. If > you build Xdmx, you need libX11 but (until recently) a configure flag > allowed you to then add/remove the dependency for libxcb. which in turn > requires xcb-proto and pthread-stubs, etc, etc. > </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Not to mention mesa. This reminds me there are 85 configure options in the server! <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> You are correct about that, I'm a little absorbed in what I'm doing so I'm not quite getting the general case correct here. I have a script in my DDX directory that disables most of that stuff (dmx, etc.). Yeah, the XCB option is still in build.sh for some reason, I was pretty sure you couldn't build without that. So I guess a more general solution, such as the module lists is needed, but short of a full build environment. If this was to be done with a configure script in the util/modular directory, which would in turn call the xserver's it would know which options to use, for instance, it could parse --disable-dmx and not build libX11. This seems like a heavy solution for a small problem though. Of course, is xserver configure complained correctly when things were missing, it could at least suggest using build.sh -o lib/libX11 or dmx-prereqs instead of xf86-prereqs, these would be sourced from a scripts.d in the util/modular and ${!} expanded. build_dmx_prereqs, build_xf86_prereqs, etc. All DDXs except for Xephyr, Xnest and Xdmx only need the simpler set right, not libX11/libxcb? Also, those three can use system provided libX11 when building natively, and don't need libX11 to be in the /opt tree, which is mostly for providing newer version of direct server libraries (meaning the ones that have to be built from git when testing a prerelease server) as long as /usr/lib is in the library path. So even in the common use case ./util/modular/build.sh -o xf86-prereqs would be useful > I think that having users keep their own module lists if they don't > want to build everything is the only maintainable approach in the long run. > > Cheers, >  Peter > </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> As a starter, can we replace "lib only" option (which seems not to be useful as is) with a<BR> module list containing xserver + dependencies required for default configuration (no --enable or --with)?<BR> We will most likely learn a thing or two from that exercise. <BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> -- Timothy Meade <<A HREF="mailto:zt.tmzt@gmail.com">zt.tmzt@gmail.com</A>> tmzt on freenode _______________________________________________ <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>