Re: building X on DragonFly

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>]

On Dec 9, 2003, at 12:44 PM, David Rhodus wrote:

> On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:34 PM, David Leimbach wrote:
>
> > On Dec 9, 2003, at 11:23 AM, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> >
> > > David Leimbach <leimbacd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Any ideas?  I'd like to take a swing at compiling KDE on it.
> > >
> > > XFree86, from the ports tree (and the dfports tree) will build just
> > > fine.  KDE and Gnome, however, both fail to build at this time.
> >
> > I disagree... the regular ports tree XFree86 failed on my box.
> > but I was building the server.
> You can build X if you have the dfports installed.
> >

I have dfports.  I don't see an X server anywhere in there.  Is it just
the libs and I will have to display elsewhere?  If so I can do that.


> > I am still interested in seeing why KDE doesn't build. :)
> Those are just trivial structure name changes. Aren't you a
> KDE com-miter ? Perhaps you can push those _DragonFly_
> changes into their tree.

Yes I am ;).  I need X to work before I can do that.  This is one of my
goals.

> -DR