Re: tlug: Building XFree86 w/ X-TrueType

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Matt Gushee wrote:

> Scott Stone writes:
> 
>  > actually 3.3.2 is all you need for the riva128.
> 
> Oh. I thought that was what I already had (I had to get the NVidia
> server separately from SuSE), but it turns out I'm running 3.3.1. So,
> is there an XNVidia server in 3.3.2, or will the SVGA server do the
> trick?

It's in the SVGA server.

> 
> I'm using Redhat 5.1, and it certainly includes pam. I have also
> installed the freetype package from TL-J. The most obvious problem was
> libXaw.so.6 -- it's in RedHat's XFree86-libs package but not in
> yours. I tried manually installing libfont.so.1 from TL's libs
> package, but something was broken and X wouldn't run. I think there
> were a couple of other problems, too, but it was late at night.

we provide Xaw separately so that people can pick between the ugly Xaw and
the 3D Xaw :)  The ugly Xaw binary RPM builds directly from our XFree86
.src.rpm though.  The 3D one is separate.

> 
> Anyway, I'm sure it could be worked out somehow, but I guess I'd
> rather fiddle with makefiles and specfiles than try to figure out all
> the interlocking dependencies of the binary packages. It's all little
> things, I guess, but some of them seem to be important.
> 

fortunately for you the X source is set up pretty well by default.. it's
*huge*

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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