I've just joined this list, but I see a few times in the archives that people have tried to build their own X debs. These threads seem to peter out without any resolution most of the time.
I'm in the same situation as others who want to do this - a couple of bugs/features are in the latest 4.0.99.1 version of X, and I want to take advantage of these without losing the debian-ness of my X installation. I haven't had any success as yet, but I'm hoping that by pooling my resources with other people who are trying to do the same thing, we can perhaps come up with a working procedure. What I did was as follows (from memory - I may have a filename or two wrong, as I'm not at the relevant machine right now. Later this evening I can post a full log): # apt-get build-dep xserver-xfree86 # apt-get source xserver-xfree86 # cvs -r xf-4_0_99_1 co xc # tar zcvf xfree86-4.0.99.1.tar.gz xc # cd xfree86-4.0.2 # mv upstream/archives/xfree*.tar.gz .. # mv ../xfree86-4.0.99.1.tar.gz upstream/archives # vi debian/scripts/patch.apply (comment out the "exit 1" line - some patches are bound to fail with a new version of the upstream source) # vi debian/changelog (add a new line for 4.0.99.1-0local1 by myself) # debian/rules binary-xserver (because I only care about the server) The build works for a while (a bunch of patches fail, but some of them succeed, and it gets into the build part of the process), but fails when trying to run (I think): bison -y -d pswparser.y The error message indicates it's looking for a file called bison.simple in /usr/share somewhere. The file really doesn't exist. I have the latest version of bison from unstable installed, and apt-cache search bison yielded no obvious candidates. That's where I get stuck. Any ideas, anyone? (btw, the 4.0.2 packages I'm working with are the latest as of yesterday, which were 4.0.2-7. All of this was done as root, which I know isn't ideal but I'm concerned about getting it *working* first). It may be clear that I don't *really* know what I'm doing here - but perhaps if a lot of us who don't know what we're doing individually work together, we'll find that the union of all our knowledge is enough to get this to work... Stuart.
