Re: How Xserver build the makefil for dirver?

Tim Roberts <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Organization Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
vichy.kuo wrote:

>Dear All:
>I need to build the via driver within XFree86_4_3 but I found via didn't
>support the driver until 4.4. 
>I directly copy the via folder to the driver directory in 4.3, but the
>makefile cannot been build after typing "make World".
>Is there any configure file I need to modify?
>  
>

It isn't that easy.  There were a number of changes between 4.3 and 4.4,
so a fair amount of source code modification will probably be required.

Have you tried just loading the 4.4 driver in 4.3?  If it complains
about ABI problems, you can try the -ignoreABI switch.

-- 
Tim Roberts, [email protected]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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