Anyone compiled Xorg from source?

[Tom Low-Shang]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:16:27AM -0500, William Park wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Has anyone compiled Xorg from source?  Did you compile all 200 packages
> manually, or was there some top-level "Makefile" where you just do
> "./configure && make && make install"?
> 
> I can get all the packages from
> <http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/src/everything/>, but there are 200
> packages.  Surely, no one would compile them manually.  Then again,
> judging by the fact that individual packages are available in various
> distros, may be they were compiled manually.

On Debian unstable I've compiled xf86-video-ati, xcb-proto, libxcb from
a git checkout without building the entire xorg suite. I just installed
the appropriate -dev packages when ./configure complained about missing
dependencies.

How much of the xorg suite you need to compile depends on the age of the
xorg packages in your distribution and on the package(s) you are
replacing.


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