It's even worse than that -- Xwrapper doesn't get installed, so I can't
run
X as a non-root user :(
help?
marc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Wandschneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 12:16 AM
> To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
> Subject: building xfree86
>
>
> hello!
>
> i recently installed a bare bones Debian 2.1r4 system
> from a CD i burned a week or so back. now, i believe I
> choose the basic 'developer' system with nothing else,
> because i'm kinda freaky and like to build everything myself.
>
> now, i downloaded all the XFree86 3.3.6 tarballs, and
> can go ahead and build/install everything EXCEPT:
>
> - a heck of a lot of the programs just don't build --
> most notably xf86config and XF86Setup
>
> In the case of the former, it builds, but doesn't
> install, and in the case of the latter, it does neither !!!
>
> In the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf86config
> directory, there are a Makefile (empty) and a Makefile.bak.
> If I force 'make' to use "Makefile.bak" and type make
> install, then it successfully installs, but XF86Setup doesn't
> even get a Makefile ...
>
> any idea why this isn't working? It's kinda bumming me
> out -- even on FreeBSD, more programs compile than I've got
> ... Are there any prereqs i'm missing? I've got perl,
> tcl/tk, gcc 2.95.2 and more installed ...
>
> thanks!
>
> marc.
>
