Re: compiling...

Around 15 o'clock on Nov 26, Keith Whitwell wrote:

> it looks like xdmcp.pc is produced in the process of building xlibs...  Isn't 
> that a bit backwards - that the server can't compile without the libs?

The X server depends on a few libraries that it shares with applications 
(not Xlib itself, except for Xnest), it uses libXau to read .Xauthority 
format files, libXdmcp to manage the XDMCP protocol and the font library 
to load core fonts.  Those are built as regular shared libraries from the 
xlibs directories.

If we manage to take advantage of some build system like jhbuild, then 
only these small libraries would be built as a part of building the X 
server, but the existing (lame) 'build-em' scipt doesn't attempt to be that 
flexible.

-keith