Easy way to bisect xorg-xserver?

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Wed Jul 7 15:17:03 PDT 2010


On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 04:23:22PM +0200, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> I would like to do some bisecting to find a regression that was
> introduced somewhere between 1.6 and 1.7.
> 
> I tried but for me as a non-developer its quite hard to get the right
> versions of the right libraries, and I gave up after a few hours.
> Is there a script which can download and build the appropriate
> libraries requiered for a certain version of the x-server?

unfortunately no, and during that time master has seen a lot of xi2
development that required frequent proto updates.

your best bet is likely to force checkouts of inputproto of each commit
date. and other protocols as well as required.
 
Cheers,
  Peter



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