On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:16:22PM +0100, David Gerard wrote: > On 18 April 2010 17:21, Joel Feiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Or you could use build.sh or jhbuild or moral equivalent. For testing, I > > have an entire X system checked out and use jhbuild to update it. It also > > automatically saves your work (via git stash) so you can deal with merge > > conflicts later. You also don't have to worry about hunting for > > dependencies and configuring those individually and manually. > > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/JhBuildInstructions > > It's non-trivial, but not terribly complex to set up. And once it's set up, > > you can pretty much forget about most of what's on that page. You just run > > jhbuild -f modular-buildrc build xserver or whatever and you're good to go. > > > I spent a little while playing with jhbuild under various operating > systems a while ago. Once jhbuild is installed and working it's > fantastic, but setting it up is an a*se and a half. And *no-one* seems > to package it.
just out of interest: did you document that setup process to the wiki somewhere? (it might already be there, I haven't used jhbuild in years) Cheers, Peter > Please add to the build instructions on the wiki page for other > distros :-) I never could get it working on FreeBSD or Debian squeeze > ... > _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
