Re: building X11

Chuck Robey wrote:
> I am trying to get on board OpenBSD via the Sharp Zaurus C3000.  I have 
> cvsupped the X11 and XF4 distros, and I copied the XF4 one to the 
> zaurus.  I tried to build it, was not successful, and was left with some 
> quesions:

The X11 tree is obsolete and kept in CVS only for reference.
> 
> 1) this is the fist time I have encountered "lndir", and I found about 
> it in the XF4/README file, where it game me hints to name the XF4 as 
> /source/XF4, and use lndir to create /obj/XF4 (which went ok). 

Make sure you didn't loose one level by a wrong command. Your /obj/XF4 
directory should contain xc and xc-old subdirs, as well as a symbolic 
link to /us/source/XF4/Makefile (and some other dirs and links).
If /obj/XF4 containss links to the contains of /source/XF4/xc you got it 
wrong.

> The 
> question occurs in trying to figure out what dir to be in for the make, 
> either /source/XF4 or /obj/XF4.  

You should run 'make build' in /obj/XF4. This will run 'make World in 
/obj/XF4/xc.

> It seems like a silly question, but 
> seriously, I don't know trhe answer to this one, and seeing as it's not 
> building for me in either place, I guess I need to know the answer.
> 
> 2) the Makefile seems to be missing a "xmakefile", where does this show up?
> 
It's built by make World in xc. Normally the top-level Makefile in XF4 
hides that from you if you run make or make build in the top level.

> 3) if I want to build as much as possible, is the target to hit "World"?

It's not a matter of selecting what parts of the X tree you want to 
build (This is done by creating a xc/config/cf/host.def file). The World 
target is the way to bootstrap the build on a fresh tree.
The role of the other available make targets in /obj/XF4/xc is explained 
in the README.

-- 
Matthieu Herrb