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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

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