[ale] LFS + X windows

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Tue Mar 29 13:06:11 EST 2005


Isn't there a fork in X?  What fork should I use?

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 11:59, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
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> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I'm doing a  LFS install and it does not discuss X.  Is there any
> > pointers on how to compile X for a LFS install?  What version of X do I
> > download?  Its been a long time since I've had to compile X.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> 
> X isn't that hard - download the entire set of sources (I believe that
> x.org has them, but I'm not 100% certain about that).  Extract them all
> to the same directory and read the documentation that comes with it -
> either INSTALL or README, IIRC.  I don't recall it being that hard.  It
> just takes forever after you type 'make world'.  And do it on a
> partition where you have several GB avail to run the compile.
> 
> 	- Mike
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