> > I've suffered the pain of having to learn M4 and automake/conf. :-)
>
> Ouch! :-)
Hi,
Been there myself, been using autoconf (and the GNU build system,
in general) on my own project for the past two years, and learn something
new every week. I occasionally volunteer to autoconf-iscate projects that
I care about, and that are in dire need of it. Please keep me CCd on the
X.org port. I'm no expert, but am willing to help out where I can.
> > Are you looking for someone who will work on BOTH X.org and Xfree?
> > That's a big chunk of work...
>
> At this point, all the activity appears to be on the X.org side. If
> you could help Torrey with getting X.org R7 to build on Darwin (using
> autoconf, I presume) he and I -- and many others -- would be grateful.
>
> The new build system in R7 is fairly complicated:
>
> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide
>
> The good is that it *is* more standard, since it uses autoconf. The
> bad news is that it is *different*, so Torrey is probably unclear
> what all needs to be changed, and the rest of us are *completely*
> clueless.
I've never looked into X11's build system, or much of its guts for that
matter. I hope a fresh pair of eyes can be of use.
> Of course, we might get lucky and it will all "just work" due to the
> magic of autoconf. The first step, I suspect, is merely to give it a
> shot and figure out what breaks. Torrey, have you even tried to
> tackle R7 yet, or are you focused on R6.9 functional issues?
>
> One very useful starting point would be create a 'port' for R7, to
> capture the relevant learning and patches needed to make this all
> work. I'm a DarwinPorts guy, and could help you with that bit (if
> you have some time over the next week) -- unless the Fink guys have
> already done all that, which (as far as I can see) they have not:
>
> http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/inst-xfree86.php
>
> Let me know if you (or anybody else, HINT HINT) are interested in
> tacking this, and we can start an offline thread.
Hint taken!
David Fang
Computer Systems Laboratory
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cornell University
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/
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