Hi, I have been working on building XFree86, though the version on the CD's I think just before yours.
After some time comsuming experimentation (it's big!) and finding libraries I did not have -dev versions of (joystick and libz), I found the following sequence to work for me: cd "wherever" dpkg-source -x blah.dsc debian/rules clean debian/rules build debian/rules binary . Policy says that only debian/rules binary should be necessary, but I had problems. There were permission problems the clean fixed. I could be wrong, but it appears to me that binary does not have build as a prerequisite and so several things that build does don't get done. I do not file a bug not being sure and I'm sure I would have problems maintaining such a large package. You may want to see if you can get unmodified source to build before modifying. I have a 33MH 486 making each attempt ~24 hrs, so this is not extensively checked out, but it appears to have worked for me. Any comments from Debian X developers appreciated. drb
