host.def question

Matthieu Herrb matthieu.herrb at laas.fr
Wed Mar 23 12:12:46 PST 2005


james osburn wrote:
> I am building Xfree 4.3.0 and i wanted to know does
> the host.def file control what is or isn't built. that is
> have not missed something.

Yes, but host.def is optionnal. If not present, imake will pick up 
default values from other configuration files (xorg.cf, X11.tmpl, 
Imake.tmpl).
xorgsite.def shows most of the variables that can be set in host.def.

PS. in XFree86 xorg.cf is called xfree86.cf and xorgsite.def is 
xf86site.def.
-- 
Matthieu Herrb



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