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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL2 X_SVGA server bug was Re: X libraries problems in BL3.40
  • Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:00:46 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, David Moberg wrote:

sindi keesan wrote:

I will set up a larger BL3.40 partition somewhere and try to learn to
compile X servers on it unless someone else wants to do that.

I recommend that you get the source code from Slackware (/source/x/
directory) if you haven't already downloaded it. Source code from
Slackware 3.x or 4.0 is much more likely to work on libc5 than
something from the XFree86 site. XFree86 has its own build system -
you may find its documentation helpful:

http://xfree86.org/3.3.6/BUILD1.html#3

The main index is:
http://xfree86.org/3.3.6/BUILD1.html

SW4.0 uses XFree86 3.3.31
SW7.1 uses version 3.6 and provides source in /x:
Three bz2 files of 13M, 11M and 12M plus some other stuff.
This appears to include fonts.

SW7.1 /contrib provides source for version 4.0:
16M regular source, 8M fonts, 20M static libs/debug

I have the CD. I presume 3.3.6 would compile with libc5.
Is there any major advantage to 4.0 if it did work with libc5?

Steven, did you compile XFree86 or use a Slackware version?

(start reading at section 1.2 after you've downloaded and unpacked the source)

Try building with the default configuration; then, if the build fails,
look at the compiling error log, which should give a hint at which
configuration setting needs to be changed to successfully build
XFree86.

unless someone else wants to do that.

XFree86 is not fun to compile. It has several dependencies, (although
they should be easy to get from SW40) its own unique build system, and
it is one gigantic package which takes a long time to build unless you
have a modern PC.

We have (motherboard and case from a dumpster) one 700MHz with 256MB RAM. How long would it take? Ghostscript only took about half an hour on a 400MHz but is smaller.

The SW71 X servers (S3 anyway) already work in BL3. Is there some way I could compile just the libraries?



David

Sindi




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