Re: Building Xquartz from source
Re: Building Xquartz from source
- Subject: Re: Building Xquartz from source
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:31:45 -0800
On Nov 18, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Ben Byer wrote:
The real answer to that question is: At some point, I had to pick a
specific version of every given X11-related software component for
"X11 that will ship on a zillion expensive DVDs of Leopard", and
that was the most current version on that day. So, in some sense,
it's arbitrary; this is why we got screwed by libX11-1.1.2 causing
Gimp crashes, etc.
As you noted, there are specific symbol dependencies between a
specific version of the X server and the version of MesaLib used to
build the server. However -- we've spent most of the past few weeks
on this mailing list just trying to address the immediate problems
with the specific versions of the software that was distributed as
part of the Leopard GM release. Our long-term goal is to build the
X server against the X.org git master branch -- the very latest and
greatest code. If you try that now, it almost works, but we get
many crashes in the Rootless code -- none of which changed between
the 7.2 code and the X. So, we don't know why it broke, or exactly
when -- so if you wanted to start upgrading bits and figure out when
it breaks, that would be very helpful.
And git is a great tool to help us do this, but HOW to use it is
beyond my comprehension at present... From what I've seen, we should
be able to "easily" merge the xorg-server-apple-1.2 branch changes to
a more recent branch point of master (perhaps stepping to the 1.3 tag
first, then doing binary searches on the major releases, then on
individual changes between the releases)... I know git-bisect is good
for the binary searching, but I don't know if it can do binary
searching among branch-points...
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