Re: Will virgin XFree86 run under LINUX?

Feigning erudition, Paul Elliott wrote:
% 
% I was at my local LINUX group, where it was said that if you
% get the virgin XFree86 tarball, then make World;make install
% the resulting system will crash. It was said that to get an
% XFree86 system that actually works, you need the patches
% associated with the various distributions. Is this True?

Not only is what you were told false, it is perniciously false.

I have built the stock 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 releases easily a dozen
times with a simple "make World ; make install" and had no 
problems. Currently, I update my CVS tree every night and
build and install it every few days. Again, it works just fine
for me.

Kurt
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