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Last change on this file since c49d8f0 was c49d8f0, checked in by Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>, 21 years ago

Tweaks to XFree86 DRI and other minor issues

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[f45b1953]1<sect2>
2<title>Command explanations</title>
3
[d10f793]4<para><userinput>WORLDOPTS="" make World 2&gt;&amp;1 | tee xfree-compile.log</userinput> :
[071a954]5This command runs multiple makefiles to completely rebuild the system.
6WORLDOPTS="" disables the default setting to continue after encountering an error.
[f45b1953]7<userinput>2&gt;&amp;1</userinput> redirects error messages to the same location
[19e9cee]8as normal output. The <userinput>tee</userinput> command allows viewing of
9the output while logging the results to a file.</para>
[f45b1953]10
[3c989e81]11<note><para>When rebuilding XFree86, a separate command that may be used if only minor
[19e9cee]12changes are made to the sources is <userinput>make
13Everything</userinput>. This does not automatically remove generated
14files and only rebuilds those files or programs that are out
15of date.</para></note>
[f45b1953]16
[19e9cee]17<para><userinput>ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/bin/X11</userinput>,
[f45b1953]18<userinput>ln -sf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11</userinput>, and
[c49d8f0]19<userinput>ln -sf /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11</userinput> : These
20commands are present to enable other (broken) packages to build
[f45b1953]21against XFree86. We do this even though the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
22says:
23"In general, software must not be installed or managed via the above
[3c989e81]24symbolic links. They are intended for utilization by users only."</para>
25
[be1cb17]26<para><userinput>make CC=/opt/gcc-2.95.3/bin/gcc -f Makefile.linux</userinput> : This builds the
27XFree86 compatible kernel modules using the same compiler used to compile
28the kernel.</para>
[3c989e81]29
30<para><userinput>cp gamma.o radeon.o sis.o r128.o i810.o i830.o mga.o tdfx.o
[d10f793]31/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/char/drm/</userinput> : Put the kernel
[c49d8f0]32module(s) where the kernel can find them. You only need to copy the driver you
33need to support your video card.</para>
[3c989e81]34
[d10f793]35<para><userinput>depmod -a</userinput> : Update the modules.dep file for module
[3c989e81]36management.</para>
37
38</sect2>
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