Re: Future features (was Re: Discussing issues)

On Don, 2003-04-17 at 16:52, Egbert Eich wrote:
> Michel Dänzer writes:
>  > On Mit, 2003-04-16 at 21:59, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>  > > 
>  > >  - I think it would help people test and work with the XFree86
>  > >    codebase if you could basically just run a build-and-install script
>  > >    which would leave you with a way to start an X session using
>  > >    XFree86 from CVS, without messing up the files owned by your
>  > >    packaging system. i.e. type one command, walk away, shut down
>  > >    current X, start the new one, now you're using your custom X build.
>  > >    Maybe it's this easy now, but it isn't clear to me how you do it.
> 
> To look at this is on my list.
> 
>  > 
>  > I don't know if you'd call it easy, but it's possible. I do this by
>  > setting ProjectRoot to somewhere in /usr/local and creating symlinks
>  > there pointing to the build tree. 
> 
> I even run my stuff in the build tree 

So do I basically. :)

> as you don't need to change that match to adjust the XF86Config
> appropriately. 

The point of my solution is exactly not to require any XF86Config
changes.


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