Compiling earlier X server releases using jhbuild/git?

[Gaetan Nadon]

On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 12:59 -0800, Mike Travis wrote:

> Cool, thanks Dan and Gaeton!
> 
> Yes, I've been getting ever so close, just to stumble at the
> last moment.  Compiling on an Ubuntu system was relatively

Check the tool chain level here: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RequiredPackages
On Jaunty, automake version pre-installed is (or was) 1.7 which causes
some build failure.

> easy compared to rpm based systems (at least the top-of-trunk
> X server.)
> 
> Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 11:14 -0800, Mike Travis wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to build an earlier X server version using GIT and
> >> jhbuild and I was wondering if there's a branch label to get
> >> all the modules specific to a release (7.4 in this case).
> >>
> >> Attempting to use the "build-from-tarballs.sh" using everything
> >> has not been successful as I cannot find installable modules for
> >> glproto and libpciaccess0-devel (so far).
> >>
> > I have been using /util/modular/build.sh since summer 2009 to build from 
> > git. I think it has always been maintained. You can get the  
> > util-modular package at the 7.4 level from here: 
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/modular/tag/?id=XORG-7_4. I think 
> > it can build from tarballs, although I never tried it. If not, extract 
> > the tarballs.
> > 
> > This script would give a you list of modules to check against. There are 
> > a few build issues you may look at, 22611, 22616, 22675, 22823.
> > 
> > This should get you pretty close to where you want to be. I don't about 
> > mesa/drm at that time frame, but check against the latest build.sh.
> > 
> > The following modules are also required for 7.4. They are not X.Org 
> > modules and not posted on the http://www.x.org/releases/, but are 
> > available on the same git page.
> > 
> > pixman
> > mesa/drm
> > mesa/mesa
> > xcb/proto
> > xcb/libxcb
> > xcb/pthread-stubs
> > xcb/util
> > xkeyboard-config
> > 
> > http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/
> > ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/
> > http://cairographics.org/releases/
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig
> > 
> >> Building from the distro (suse) xorg source rpm's has been
> >> equally frustrating.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mike
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