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diff --git a/nx-X11/BUILD b/nx-X11/BUILD deleted file mode 100644 index b4f0b3dcf..000000000 --- a/nx-X11/BUILD +++ /dev/null @@ -1,324 +0,0 @@ - Building the X Window System from the X.Org Monolithic Source Distribution - - Jim Gettys and Keith Packard (for X11R6.9) - David Dawes and Matthieu Herrb (for XFree86 4.4 RC2) - - 21 December 2005 - - Abstract - - This document describes how to build the X Window System from the - X.Org monolithic source distribution and is designed to be used in - conjunction with the operating system (OS) specific README files. - - NOTE: Refer to the appropriate OS-specific README file in xc/pro- - grams/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc before attempting to build the X dis- - tribution. These files often contain additional information that - you need to successfully build for your OS. - -We highly recommend using gcc to build the X distribution, but X also gener- -ally builds with the native compiler for each OS platform; The build tools -known to be required include: gcc, make, C library development package, bi- -son, flex, ncurses (development package), and Perl. - -The monolithic tree also includes copies of some packages maintained outside -the X.Org project for convenience in building on machines that do not already -have them installed. These include FreeType 2, fontconfig, expat, xterm, -and zlib. For most uses however, it is recommended that you install the -latest version directly from the main distribution site, or use the packages -provided in your operating system, as they are more likely to be up to date -with the latest bug fixes and security patches. Depending on your platform, -use of the bundled versions may be enabled or disabled by default, check the -Imake configuration files for your platform in xc/config/cf to find out. To -override the defaults for your platform or to set the path to the installa- -tion location, see the instructions below on configuring the source via -xorgsite.def and host.def. - -X11R6.9 depends on the following external packages: - - +-------------+----------------+-----------+ - |Package Name | Version | Included? | - +-------------+----------------+-----------+ - |expat | 1.95.8 | Yes | - |fontconfig | 2.2 or newer | Yes | - |FreeType | 2.1.8 or 2.1.9 | Yes | - |libdrm | 2.0 | Yes | - |libpng | 1.2.8 | No | - |Mesa | 6.4.1 | Yes | - |xterm | Patch 207 | Yes | - |zlib | 1.1.4 or 1.2.3 | Yes | - +-------------+----------------+-----------+ - -You can find more information and/or the original sources for these packages -at their project websites at these URL's: - - +-------------+-------------------------------------------+ - |Package Name | Website | - +-------------+-------------------------------------------+ - |expat | http://expat.sourceforge.net/ | - |fontconfig | http://www.fontconfig.org/ | - |FreeType | http://www.freetype.org/ | - |libdrm | http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/ | - |libpng | http://www.libpng.com/pub/png/libpng.html | - |Mesa | http://www.mesa3d.org/ | - |xterm | http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.html | - |zlib | http://www.zlib.net/ | - +-------------+-------------------------------------------+ - -1. How to get the X11R6.9 distribution source - -One way of getting the X11R6.9 source is to obtain it directly from the X.Org -CVS repository. There are several ways of doing that, and they are described -in the CVS section of our wiki <URL:http://wiki.x.org/> The CVS tag for this -release is "XORG-6_9_0". The tag for the maintenance branch for this -release is "XORG-6_9-branch". - -Another method of getting the X11R6.9 source is to either download the 6.9.0 -source tarballs sites from freedesktop.org using either ftp or http. The -procedure for this is as follows: - - o The X11R6.9 source is contained in the files: - - X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz - - X11R6.9.0-src2.tar.gz - - X11R6.9.0-src3.tar.gz - - X11R6.9.0-src4.tar.gz - - X11R6.9.0-src5.tar.gz - - X11R6.9.0-src6.tar.gz - - X11R6.9.0-src7.tar.gz - - These can be found at ftp://ftp.freedesk- - top.org/xorg/releases/X11R6.9/src/ or http://xorg.freedesk- - top.org/releases/X11R6.9/src/ and similar locations on X.Org mirror - sites. X11R6.9.0-src4.tgz and X11R6.9.0-src5.tar.gz contains the fonts. - X11R6.9.0-src6.tar.gz contains the documentation source. - X11R6.9.0-src7.tar.gz contains the hardcopy documentation. - X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz, X11R6.9.0-src2.tar.gz and X11R6.9.0-src3.tar.gz - contains everything else. If you don't need the docs or fonts you can - get by with only X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz, X11R6.9.0-src2.tar.gz and - X11R6.9.0-src3.tar.gz. - - o Extract each of these files by running the following from a directory on - a filesystem containing enough space (the full source requires around - 305MB, and a similar amount is required in addition to this for the com- - piled binaries): - - gzip -d < X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz | tar vxf - - - gzip -d < X11R6.9.0-src2.tar.gz | tar vxf - - - gzip -d < X11R6.9.0-src3.tar.gz | tar vxf - - - gzip -d < X11R6.9.0-src4.tar.gz | tar vxf - - - gzip -d < X11R6.9.0-src5.tar.gz | tar vxf - - - gzip -d < X11R6.9.0-src6.tar.gz | tar vxf - - - gzip -d < X11R6.9.0-src7.tar.gz | tar vxf - - -All methods will produce one main source directory called xc. - -2. Configuring the source before building - -In most cases it shouldn't be necessary to configure anything before build- -ing. - -If you do want to make configuration changes, it is recommended that you -start by going to the xc/config/cf directory, and copying the file -xorgsite.def to host.def. Then read through the host.def file (which is -heavily commented), and set your configuration parameters. Usually you can -find the default settings by checking the .cf file(s) relevant to your OS. - -A good rule to follow is only to change things that you understand as it's -easy to create build problems by changing the default configuration. Many of -the configuration parameters are described in the xc/config/cf/README. - -If you are using just the X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz, X11R6.9.0-src2.tar.gz and -X11R6.9.0-src3.tar.gz parts of the source dist, you will need to define -BuildFonts to NO. - -3. Using a shadow directory of symbolic links for the build - -A recommended practice is to use a shadow directory of symbolic links to do -the build of X11R6.9 as this allows you to keep the source directory unmodi- -fied during the build. It has the following benefits: - - o When you are using CVS to maintain your source tree, the update process - is not disturbed by foreign files not under CVS's control. - - o It is possible to build X11R6.9 for several different Operating System - or architectures from the same sources, shared by read-only NFS mounts. - - o It is possible to build X11R6.9 with different configuration options, by - putting a real copy of the host.def file in each build tree and by cus- - tomizing it separately in each build tree. - -To make a shadow directory of symbolic links, use the following steps: - - o create the directory at the top of the build tree. It is often created - at the same level that the xc directory, but this is not mandatory. - - cd the directory containing the xcdirectory - - mkdir build - - o use the "lndir" command to make the shadow tree: - - lndir ../xc - - Note that you can refer to the xc directory with an absolute path if - needed. - - See the lndir(1) manual page for details. - -If lndir is not already installed on your system, you can build it manually -from the X11R6.9 sources by running the following commands: - - cd xc/config/util - - make -f Makefile.ini lndir - - cp lndir some directory in your PATH - -Occasionally there may be stale links in the build tree, like when files in -the source tree are removed or renamed. These can be cleaned up by running -the "cleanlinks" script from the build directory (see the cleanlinks(1) man- -ual page). Rarely there will be changes that will require the build tree to -be re-created from scratch. A symptom of this can be mysterious build prob- -lems. The best solution for this is to remove the build tree, and then re- -create it using the steps outlined above. - -4. Building and installing the distribution - -Before building the distribution, read through the OS-specific README file in -xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc that is relevant to you. Once you have -addressed the OS-specific details, go your build directory (either the xc -directory or the shadow tree created before) and run "make World" with the -BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS set as described in the OS-specific README (if necessary, but -most systems supported by X11R6.9 don't need BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS). It is advis- -able to redirect stdout and stderr to World.log so that you can track down -problems that might occur during the build. - -With Bourne-like shells (Bash, the Korn shell, zsh, etc.) use a command like: - - make World > World.log 2>&1 - -Witch C-shell variants (csh, tcsh, etc), use: - - make World >& World.log - -You can follow the progress of the build by running: - - tail -f World.log - - in a terminal. - -When the build is finished, you should check the World.Log file to see if -there were any problems. If there weren't any then you can install the bina- -ries. By default the "make World" process will exit at the first error. To -restart the build process after correcting the problems, just run 'make'. If -Imakefiles or part of the build configuration was changed as part of correct- -ing the problem, either re-run "make World", or run "make Everything". - -If you would prefer "make World" to ignore errors and build as much as possi- -ble, run it in the following way instead of the way described above: - -for Bourne-like shells: - - make WORLDOPTS=-k World > World.log 2>&1 - -for C-shell variants: - - make WORLDOPTS=-k World >& World.log - -To do the install, run "make install" and "make install.man". Make sure you -have enough space in /usr/X11R6 for the install to succeed. If you want to -install on a filesystem other than /usr, make a symbolic link to /usr/X11R6 -before installing. To install the tree into a different directory than -/usr/X11R6 you can specify DESTDIR: - - make install DESTDIR=<install_target_dir> - - make install.man DESTDIR=<install_target_dir> - -Cross compiling is supported if the appropriate config files for your target -platforms exist. You must have the compiler toolchain installed for your tar- -get platform and the C-compiler must know where those tools exist. To inform -the build system where your cross compiler is located set the make variable -CROSSCOMPILEDIR to the directory where the toolchain binaries are installed. - - make World CROSSCOMPILEDIR="<cross compiler dir>"; - -. - -5. Reconfiguring the server (source distribution) - -To build a different set of servers or servers with a different set of -drivers installed: - - 1. Make sure the source for any new drivers is in the correct place (e.g., - driver source should be in a subdirectory of xc/pro- - grams/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers). - - 2. Change the settings of the server defines in host.def to specify which - servers you wish to build. Also, change the driver lists to suit your - needs. - - 3. From xc/programs/Xserver, run: - - make Makefile - make Makefiles - make includes - make depend - make - -6. Other useful make targets - -There are some other useful targets defined in the top level Makefile of -X11R6.9: - - o Everything after a make World, make Everything does everything a make - World does, except the cleaning of the tree. It is a way to quickly - rebuild the tree after a source patch, but it is not 100% bullet proof. - There are cases were it is better to force a full build by using make - World. - - o clean does a partial cleaning of the source tree. Removes object files - and generated manual pages, but leaves the Makefiles and the generated - dependencies files in place. After a make clean you need to re-run - - make includes - make depend - make - - to rebuild the X11R6.9. - - o distclean does a full cleaning of the source tree, removing all gener- - ated files. After a make distclean, make World is the only option to - rebuild X11R6.9. - - o includes generates all generated header files and in-tree symbolic links - needed by the build. These files are removed by a make clean. - - o depend recomputes the dependencies for the various targets in all Make- - files. Depending on the operating system, the dependencies are stored in - the Makefile, or as a separate file, called .depend. This target needs - the generated include files produced by make includes. - - o VerifyOS displays the detected operating system version. If the numbers - shown do not match your system, you probably need to set them manually - in host.def and report the problem to Xorg via our bug database at X.Org - Bug Database <URL:https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?prod- - uct=xorg> or via email at <xorg@lists.freedesktop.org>. - - Generated from Id: BUILD.sgml,v 1.10 alanc Exp $ - - -$XdotOrg: xc/BUILD,v 1.7 2005/12/21 05:39:04 kem Exp $ |