Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a link that describes how to go about building packages from > the deb-src files and how I might identify packages for source build > only?
Modify the source as you feel appropriate, add a new entry to the top of debian/changelog, and run 'debuild' out of the devscripts package. Read documentation on http://www.debian.org/devel/. > An example might be to change XFree and my Window Manager to > compiled packages to take advantage of the chipset graphics > instructions. I don't think recompiling either of these will have any useful effects for you. Your window manager doesn't communicate directly with the hardware at all; it even isn't necessarily running on the same machine as the graphics card. While the X server does communicate with the hardware, how it does so is written into the source code; the C compiler doesn't know anything about your graphics hardware. So if you had a custom driver for a strange graphics card, this might be a useful approach, but otherwise, this is pretty much wasted effort. ObGentoo: except in limited cases involving computationally intensive processing (linear algebra, crypto), recompilation doesn't seem to actually give much in terms of a performance boost. Where it does make a difference, Debian supplies processor-specific libraries and binaries. If you have actual numbers demonstrating otherwise, please share. :-) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
