diary of a window system hacker http://www.fooishbar.org/blog/2004/Jun/05 Daniel Stone http://www.fooishbar.org/blog/2004/Jun/05 daniel@fooishbar.org Copyright 2004-2009 Daniel Stone, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License PyBlosxom http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/ 1.3.2 2/13/2006 2004-06-05T05:01:00Z bootstrapping xorg - it works http://www.fooishbar.org/blog/2004/06/05/bootstrappingXorg-2004-06-05-06-01 2004-06-05T05:01:00Z 2004-06-05T05:01:00Z So, I was doing some hacking on fd.o's X (importing some apps, strong deps), when it occurred to me that no-one hacks on it because it doesn't even bootstrap. So, a few hours, two run-outs of disk space, several bootstrap attempts, numerous tarballs, and a fair few revisions later, X is now bootstrapping fine. Starting from scratch on a machine that had never seen X libraries, I ran through xlibs and xserver-xorg, and it all worked. <br /><br /> So, if you want to hack on Xorg's modular stuff, use xlibs from CVS (the usual place), and grab my <a href="http://freedesktop.org/~daniel/xserver-xorg-200406050556.tar.bz2">latest xserver-xorg tarball</a>. Sorry for all the false starts, but latest xlibs plus that tarball is a goer.