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CAn somebody who is successful post a brief guide to build Xorg 7.3.
I am facing problems dloading from git as i am behind a http proxy requiring authentication.
I am running FC4 Xorg 6.8.2 kernel 2.6.17 and have my reasons not to upgrade the distro.
Will 7.3 work with this.
Thanks any way
Well folks now i think that since 7.3 is toooo new to install i will make do with 7.2
i have dloaded the tarballs
what do i do next.????
Have you considered just pointing your yum repos to one from say Fedora 7 and then selectively upgrading all X related packages?
are you sure that wont vreate any probs wht soeverQuote:
Originally Posted by Michael
can generaly packages created for fc7 be installed on another Fc (lower versions)
wont it have higher dependencies
moreover i wud really like to bbuild X and keep my original as well so that i can switch when necessary
See this.
Short version:
1. download everything from here
2. download damageproto 1.1 separately
3. download latest Mesa3D and unpack it somewhere near
4. download the build-from-tarballs.sh script
5. assuming you're installing to /usr/X11R7.3:
- export PATH=/usr/X11R7.3/bin:$PATH
- export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R7.3/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
6. ./build-from-tarballs.sh -m PATH_TO_MESA -n -bz2 -e /usr/X11R7.3
That's it.
EDIT: you may have to modify the script to suit your needs. I added -j8 to make, removed fonts, docs and all the drivers I didn't need.
Ok thanks but a couple of things still linger:-Quote:
Originally Posted by Xipeos
1. why do you need to dload damageproto separately.
2. I have X116.8.2 installed in /usr/X11R6 and i want to use both interghangeably just for the reason that I may end up with some problem in 7.3.
i) Will running X11R7.3 change my system so that i cant revert back.
ii) How could i accomplish this.
You need damageproto 1.1.0 to compile, but only 1.0.3 is provided in the 7.3 tree.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheIcebreaker
*EDIT: meh this is no longer true, sorry for the false information.
Move /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11R6_old then create a link from 7.3 to R6:Quote:
Originally Posted by TheIcebreaker
Some people intall X11 directly in /usr, but this way it's cleaner and much easier to up/downgrade.Code:mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6_old&&ln -s /usr/X11R7.3 /usr/X11R6
When you want to go back, simply remove the link and rename X11R6_old to X11R6.
I tried the above metod got all the dependencies and after multiple build attempts i am getting errors.
error in building input evdev ,vmmouse for a few
what do i do.
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Originally Posted by Xipeos
You most likely do not need any other input drivers than keyboard, mouse and joystick. I do not know why evdev, vmmouse and the others fail, but I don't really care (I just removed them from the beginning like I said before).Quote:
Originally Posted by TheIcebreaker
can you just post an ls -R of your build directory
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Originally Posted by Xipeos