help wanted: get minimal xserver built
Daniel Stone
daniel at freedesktop.org
Thu Feb 23 00:43:28 PST 2006
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:37:31AM +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Daniel Stone <daniel at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> > > I wonder if the ioport binary has to contain half of the whole
> > > xserver ...
> >
> > If you're building a minimal environment, you certainly don't need the
> > ioport binary.
>
> Yes, I disabled it.
>
> Finally, I got the dawn thing compiled. It takes really much time.
>
> Now there's another problem: it seems the xserver requires perl
> (in fact: some tool called by him).
>
> Is perl really required ?
Well, I could say 'no', but I'd be lying, because getconfig requires
Perl. So the answer is, if you want to run getconfig, 'yes'.
I'm not sure how much more I can say.
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