yay, build complete. Now what ?

[Dennis Clarke]

> > Can I simply fire this up in the VMware virtual machine with a 
> barebone xinit ? 
> 
> yes. just make sure you set your PATH etc so you start the new bits, 
> not the
> system-wide ones.

Well that is not a problem, there is no system wide X at all on this vmware machine.


> > aster $ ldd /opt/xorg/bin/xlsatoms
> >         linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff5c59e000)
> >         libxcb.so.1 => not found
> >         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f3f8612e000)
> >         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f3f86496000)
> > 
> 
> set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $prefix/lib

That there looks like a build error.  One should never, ever, need to specify LD_IBRARY_PATH in order to run a binary in some location like /opt/foo.  The RPATH *should* be in the binary itself. 

Otherwise there is no promise that the binary will operate as expected. 

Dennis