[gentoo-alpha] Need X testers on Alpha. I think we've got it this time.

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Thu Oct 8 07:17:28 PDT 2009


On Thu, Oct  8, 2009 at 10:05:32 -0400, Matt Turner wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Not a Debian user either, but I believe...
> >
> > apt-get build-dep <name of X server package>
> >
> > ...should do the trick, more or less.
> 
> Thanks. I just wonder if it'll pull in the needed versions? X from git
> will require newer versions of various packages than xserver-1.5 or
> whatever version is available in Debian.
> 
The build-dependencies for xorg-server 1.7 are all in Debian's
"experimental" repo (some libs may not be built for alpha yet, but they
shouldn't be needed to build the Xorg server).

Cheers,
Julien


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