Installing Xorg

Daniel Stone daniel at freedesktop.org
Tue Feb 21 22:50:11 PST 2006


On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:03:21PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> >On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Russell Shaw wrote:
> >
> >>>./util/modular/build.sh -s sudo /usr/local
> >>
> >>But that installs stuff. I don't want to install half working
> >>stuff i am debugging.
> >
> >You can just use the normal way (without build.sh). See "Building 
> >individual module components by hand" at 
> >http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide.
> >
> >Or just don't install to /usr/local and install in your testing directory 
> >as you do your debugging.
> 
> But i tried installing in a local directory, but the whole thing takes
> an hour to recompile when i want to try it in /usr/local.

I guess saying 'comment out the "make install" line in build.sh' would
be a little too obvious?



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