Installing Xorg

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 06:06:27PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:03:21PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
> >>Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> >>>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.
> 
> It would be obvious if the manual said that was the way to do it.

Dude, the manual is a wiki.

> It should have been blindingly obvious that a build script is useless
> if it doesn't have simple options for development.

It should be blindingly obvious that you forgot to attach the
alternative script to this mail.

> I've been debugging it for the last few hours re-running builds to
> put in options that should already have been there.

... sounds like fun.

> > I guess saying 'comment out the "make install" line in build.sh' would
> > be a little too obvious?
> 
> The script shouldn't unconditionally sudo-install stuff, so a few other
> things need changing.

It doesn't, unless you ask it to use sudo.

> Why couldn't there be a top-level ./configure script like all other
> multi-configure projects?

It should be blindingly obvious that you forgot to attach the top-level
./configure script to this mail.