Re: building X11

Matthieu Herrb wrote:

> 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 The X11 tree is obsolete and kept in CVS only for reference.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.
>

It looks like I had done it all right, but when I had experimented with 
targets other than the "build" one that you mention, I poisoned the 
environment somehow.  Recreating, and running the build target from XF4 
seems to have done the trick, and I thank you.

One thing  I would like to do is to remotely mount one of the dirs from 
my FreeBSD host onto the zaurus, using usb networking, but I have no 
idea how to get the cdce interface to work,  I tried runnig "ifconfig 
-C" but it won[t apprently let me create a cdce interface.  Is there any 
example, anywhere, of  using usb networking on  any architecture for 
OpenBSD?  I figure it might well work for the zaurus as well as any 
other arch.

What a fantasic toy this is, this zaurus!

>> 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.