Re: building X11

Matthieu Herrb wrote:

> Chuck Robey wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Using the usb client port of the zaurus as cdce is not supported by 
> OpenBSD (yet). It only works under Linux for now.
> You need to find some compact flash or usb network adapter to connect 
> your Zaurus to another machine.

I wanted to drop a couple of items here:

1) I have spent a totally unreasonable amount of time trying to get usb 
networking to work on the Zaurus.  Why?  (a) because OpenBSD's usb 
mounting other items Ilike the keyboard) was quite the smoothest for any 
OS I have yet seen, and it convinced me that other parts of the usb 
driver would be equally well done, and (b), the documentation simply and 
completely fails to give any hint at all that it doesn't yet work.  You 
really need at least a dated FAQ entry, or better yet, merely 10 words 
on the zaurus.html page.

If you want to put it this, you're the victim of your own success.  
You're too good.  Try pluggin in a keyboard, anytime.

2) I so surprised about slow compilation on the Zaurus!  I know I 
shouldn't be, but having all those nice Intel speed boxes is spoiling!  
Anyhow, I got a complete X11 build to go off without a hitch ("build" 
target), but I didn't realize that it also did an install, so I didn't 
have the present X11R6 moved out of the way, so I'm going to do it 
again.  I want to do it with X11 still active, so I figure to move 
ProjectRoot to /usr/X11R6.8.2, and when it's complete, make the current 
X11R6 into a link from X11R6.8.2.  My question is because it's taking SO 
long to compile, I don;t want to waste time; can I move the ProjectRoot 
by changing it in xc/config/cf/site.def, then redoing a "make build" in 
/obj/XF4/xc ??  Or does it need more changes, or a more complete cleaning?

Any other platform, I wouldn't bother asking, but it takes about 36 
hours to do this baby!