Installing Xorg

Russell Shaw rjshaw at netspace.net.au
Tue Feb 21 19:24:14 PST 2006


Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Russell Shaw wrote:
> 
> 
>>cd /home/russell/SRC/X11-src
>>$ PATH=/home/russell/SRC/X11-build/bin:$PATH ./util/modular/build.sh
>>/home/russell/SRC/X11-build
>>
>>So now the output objects are in ~/SRC/X11-build, but i want them in the
>>/usr/local hierarchy.
>>
>>Is there a command to install it all into /usr/local/, or do i need to do some
>>manual copying?
> 
> 
> Manual copying over will not work correctly because many executables (and 
> other files) have your /home/russell/SRC/X11-build now hard-coded in them.
> 
> The build.sh argument for your prefix is used for your configure --prefix, 
> so run like:
> 
> ./util/modular/build.sh /usr/local
> 
> You may be able to get it to install without root privileges by setting 
> DESTDIR in your environment to your own home X11-build then manually copy 
> over when ready (but I didn't test that myself).

Hi,
How can i get the ./util/modular/build.sh script to make all the object
files, but not install them?

Then when everything is built, how can i do the install?

It would be useful if the build script followed
the "./configure, make, sudo make install" pattern.



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