Installing/Distributing Binaries After Modular Build

[Barry Scott]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, George McCollister wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm using build.sh to build the modular source tree. The wiki suggests setting
>> the prefix to /tmp/modular. What did the author intend to be done after
>> everything is built? Permanently running X from /tmp/modular doesn't seem
>> acceptable.
>>     
>
> I think that is just an example. Not a good one.
>
>   
>> If I git the source tree to /home/georgem/X11R7.1 and build
>> everything under my user, what is the suggested way of installing everything
>> as root to a normal location? build.sh seems to create tar balls for each
>> module, but they only include source. Is there a way to build binary tar balls
>> (or packages) for each module that can be used to install to a different
>> location or used on a different system.
>>     
>
> Use DESTDIR for each separate component and then tar up that directory it
> creates to make separate tarballs of the binaries.
>   
Each component uses the header files from /usr. You cannot, to my knowledge,
tell configure where you are staging the kits so that you leave /usr 
untouched.

This means that after building each component you must install it into /usr.
You can also use DESTDIR to make a kit for a single component.

You also have to get Mesa built at exactly the right point in the Xorg build
sequence. Mesa depends on Xorg files and Xorg server depends on Mesa.

Barry