Improving Xorg

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Sun Jul 9 23:52:23 PDT 2006


On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 11:24:46PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 02:48:33PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> >>I have a single checkout of cvs/git sources and use lndir to make links to
> >>it from directories in which I build 32-bit & 64-bit on both SPARC & 
> >>x86/x64
> >>for Solaris, and even gcc vs. Sun compilers.
> >
> >autotools supports srcdir != builddir, so you can do something like
> >this:
> >mkdir obj-amd64
> >cd obj-amd64
> >../configure --prefix=/usr etc
> 
> But I was doing this with checkouts directly from CVS, and didn't think our
> autogen.sh or build.sh scripts handled this.   lndir let me use build.sh as 
> is.

I don't know if build.sh handles it, but autogen.sh has handled it
basically since we started checking in to /cvs/xorg.

Cheers,
Daniel
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