Installing Xorg

[Russell Shaw]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 February 2006 12:02, Ian Romanick wrote:
> 
>>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>
> 
> It's in Fedora Core 5, and I've been beating on the installer guys getting all 
> the -devel packages into the "X development" package set.
> 
>>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.
> 
> For a world build this seems to be true, fortunately those are rather rare for 
> me now.  But there does seem to be something astonishingly stupid happening 
> during the autogen.sh phase that's taking far longer in Xorg than in other 
> autotooled projects; I'm looking into it.

autogen.sh in each directory re-runs configure which is extremeley slow,
even if -C cache option is given.

I added a top-level ./configure and Makefile.am to the tree so that hierarchial
incremental builds are easier, but am still debugging it.