Talk:How to compile an experimental X server - Revision history

Josef: my take

2007-01-05T14:38:08Z

my take

2006-09-23T04:29:37Z

‎Skipping system libraries

2006-09-23T04:28:22Z

‎Skipping system libraries

2006-09-23T04:27:14Z

‎Skipping system libraries

2006-09-23T04:23:53Z

‎Skipping system libraries

2006-09-22T20:26:46Z

‎Skipping system libraries

2006-09-22T19:16:07Z

2006-09-22T19:14:58Z

2006-09-22T19:07:16Z

‎Other approach

2006-09-22T18:15:01Z

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		+	The script could do with some more robustness, e.g. checking for 'curl' beforehand.
		+	Otherwise it looks good and seems to help me, but I can only say after having finished... :)
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		+	--[[User:Josef\|Josef]] 15:38, 5 January 2007 (CET)

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 --[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 22:26, 22 September 2006 (CEST)
-Add the option to what? I dont understand why LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't do the trick -- if the linker doesn't find the libs in /usr/local/lib then IN THEORY shouldn't it search the path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Something is wrong here, it doesn't make sense why it fails...
+Add the option to what? I dont understand why LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't do the trick -- if the linker doesn't find the libs in /usr/local/lib then IN THEORY shouldn't it search the path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Something is wrong here, it doesn't make sense why it fails...it works if I copy the files from ~/3d-pit/install/lib to /usr/local/lib but that isn't correct...
 --[[User:Singularity|Singularity]] 06:23, 23 September 2006 (CEST)

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 --[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 22:26, 22 September 2006 (CEST)
-Add the option to what? I dont understand why LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't do the trick -- if the linker doesn't find the libs in /usr/local/lib then IN THEORY shouldn't it search the path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH?
+Add the option to what? I dont understand why LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't do the trick -- if the linker doesn't find the libs in /usr/local/lib then IN THEORY shouldn't it search the path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Something is wrong here, it doesn't make sense why it fails...
 --[[User:Singularity|Singularity]] 06:23, 23 September 2006 (CEST)

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 --[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 22:26, 22 September 2006 (CEST)
-Add the option to what?
+Add the option to what? I dont understand why LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't do the trick -- if the linker doesn't find the libs in /usr/local/lib then IN THEORY shouldn't it search the path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH?
 --[[User:Singularity|Singularity]] 06:23, 23 September 2006 (CEST)

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		+	Add the option to what?
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		+	--[[User:Singularity\|Singularity]] 06:23, 23 September 2006 (CEST)

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−	How do you set the script to search only $DEST/lib for libraries instead of /usr/local/lib? I am on slackware, which still uses monolithic xorg 6.9 so it all has to be made from scratch --[[User:Singularity\|Singularity]] 21:14, 22 September 2006 (CEST)	+	==Skipping system libraries==
		+	How do you set the script to search only $DEST/lib for libraries instead of /usr/local/lib? I am on slackware, which still uses monolithic xorg 6.9 so it all has to be made from scratch
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		+	--[[User:Singularity\|Singularity]] 21:14, 22 September 2006 (CEST)
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		+	I don't know. Looking at <tt>man ld.so</tt>, maybe adding the <tt>-z nodeflib</tt> linker option will do the trick.
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		+	--[[User:Thinker\|Thinker]] 22:26, 22 September 2006 (CEST)

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−	How do you set the script to search only $DEST/lib for libraries instead of /usr/local/lib? --[[User:Singularity\|Singularity]] 21:14, 22 September 2006 (CEST)	+	How do you set the script to search only $DEST/lib for libraries instead of /usr/local/lib? I am on slackware, which still uses monolithic xorg 6.9 so it all has to be made from scratch --[[User:Singularity\|Singularity]] 21:14, 22 September 2006 (CEST)

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		+	How do you set the script to search only $DEST/lib for libraries instead of /usr/local/lib? --[[User:Singularity\|Singularity]] 21:14, 22 September 2006 (CEST)

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	::okay,it was missing SM and ice too, how on earth did you compile xorg with this script?		::okay,it was missing SM and ice too, how on earth did you compile xorg with this script?
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		+	--[[User:Singularity\|Singularity]]
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		+	The script assumes you have all the header packages (foo-devel on Fedora, etc.), and fetches only packages that had interesting changes recently (as far as I can judge). I guess you were missing those -devle packages.
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		+	BTW, please sign your posts by typing <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki> .
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		+	--[[User:Thinker\|Thinker]] 21:07, 22 September 2006 (CEST)

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	::the fix was trivial, just adding those two packages		::the fix was trivial, just adding those two packages
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		+	::okay,it was missing SM and ice too, how on earth did you compile xorg with this script?