<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ---- <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">From: Kacper Wysocki <kacperw@online.no> To: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:22:00 PM Subject: some notes on how to make building Xorg modular from git easier <div>>All the font modules have been commented out in git_xorg - if they >aren't to be pulled from git, then don't build them by default in >build.sh, and do pull them if they are to be built by default. Agreed. >Also, build.sh assumes that you want to build the various XCB modules >unless USE_XCB=NO is set - however, xcb isn't present in git (as far >as I can tell) and is certainly not pulled by git_xorg. I had to >manually get xcb from xcb.freedesktop.org tarballs, but only after >being quite puzzled that it was expected, but not provided. xcb is in git, see xcb.freedesktop.org. The script should pull this. This is the repo: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xcb >Furthermore, xkbdata was completely missing, and I could but find it >as a release tarball. The package is different now. I have it checked out but from CVS, it does not exist in git yet (this needs to be moved to git). >Second, xcb depends on gperf, which isn't documented on the build page. >seems >Third, I ran into two snags with packageconfig files: >xcursorgen : Variable 'datarootdir' not defined in >'/tmp/xmodular/modular/lib/pkgconfig/xcursor.pc' >during the build of xcursorgen and also: >xt : Variable 'datarootdir' not defined in >'/tmp/xmodular/modular/lib/pkgconfig/xt.pc' >during the build of the xt module. >The problem is the use of $datarootdir in the .pc files as in: >appdefaultdir=${datarootdir}/X11/app-defaults >The fix, at least for someone with small understanding of the build >process, was to add 'datarootdir=${prefix}/share' to both these files. Yes, I encountered this. The pc.in files need that line added. >Fourth, I following error appears while building the xserver module: >EXTRA_DIST: variable `LBX_SOURCES' is used but `LBX_SOURCES' is undefined >autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 >The fix was to set the following in os/Makefile.am >LBX_SOURCES = lbxio.c >This last one I found in an older version of Makefile.am by googling.. >I do realize that lbxio.c doesn't exist in the tree anymore... so >maybe removing the reference from the makefile altogether would be >appropriate? I never encountered this building xserver. >It does not seem to me that any of these issues would be specific to >my machine/distribution, so hopefully the above will be helpful in >fixing these simple issues. >Lastly, I believe that Barry Scott's changes to build-from-tarball.sh >should be incorporated into build.sh, or ideally there would be one >shell script incorporating both build methods (or a hybrid tarball-git >build). I might be inclined to do just such a thing at some point, but >I haven't gotten to it yet. >The end result would hopefully be that one could run git_xorg, then >build.sh (with the appropriate parameters) and thus build the whole >tree without problems (documented dependencies would of course have to >be satisfied in advance). >thanks for listening, >-Kacper Wysocki If you have an account on the wiki, feel free to edit some content too. Im looking at it now wrt to gpref and xcb. </div></div> </div></div></body></html>