ports/66404: New port: x11-servers/X.org-devel

Francois Tigeot ftigeot at wolfpond.org
Sun May 9 01:42:32 PDT 2004


On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 01:21:04AM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 00:09, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> > 
> > I'm also working on building ports similar to XFree86-4 ones; I have put
> > an archive here:
> > 
> > 	http://www.thinbsd.org/Xorg-ports-2004-05-08.tar.gz
> > 
> > I'm currently running a mix of these ports and XFree86-4.3 parts. Be aware
> > that this is a work in progress and may not work at all on your machine.
> 
> Thanks.  I'm planning on taking a slightly different route, though (and
> I'll try to explain for others who've been asking me):

[...]
 
> As far as current status, I'm running the X.Org server on my machine
> with the mix of X.Org and fd.o libraries we have (with a few more that
> are uncommitted).
[...]

Is there any place were these can be downloaded ?

> The next steps, off the top of my head:

[...]

> - Check xorg-server build on non-x86

This should not be a problem: my primary workstation is an amd64 machine
and the server is working nicely on it.
I believe I only had to add a small patch for pci stuff.

> - prepare XFree86-4-Server to coexist with and depend appropriately on
> the new libraries

If the new Xorg-server could be made to work with these from the beginning
it would be a sure win :)

-- 
Francois Tigeot


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