Compiling xlis

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Wed Jun 20 10:27:30 PDT 2007


David Woodfall wrote:
> I want to compile xlib because of the Gimp bug but I'm having problems
> locating the sources for 6.9. I keep downloading .PS.gz files which I take
> it are postscript files.
> 
> Where can I get the source?

For 6.9 and earlier, you have to download the source to the entire
X Window System - it wasn't until 7.0 that the libraries were split
out into seperate tarballs for each one.

The 6.9 source tarballs can be found at:
	http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R6.9.0/

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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