Installing Xorg

Ian Romanick idr at us.ibm.com
Wed Feb 22 09:02:40 PST 2006


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Felix Kühling wrote:

> <rant>
> Even though i have not been whining, I find the modular build process
> rather painful. You may have noticed that the number of active
> developers is rather small too. FWIW, whenever I tried the modular build
> it was broken and needed a fix somewhere. What I'm waiting for is for
> the modular Xorg to hit major distributions so that people can build
> individual modules without building everything else. Until that time
> modular Xorg is just a PITA for anyone willing to help with Xorg
> development with limited time at their hands.
> </rant>

I second that.  I'd also like to add that, even with distcc and three
systems, the modular build takes at least an order of magnitude longer
to complete than the monolith.
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