Robert Daniels wrote: > > I think by this point users should be well aware of what --sysconfdir > does. I have no objection to removing it. > > What I would really like to see is the KDE (and Gnome, if applicable) > section set up the Xorg is. In the preinstallation configuration > section, set up a variable containing all the common switches. Where > Xorg has > > export XORG_CONFIG="--prefix=$XORG_PREFIX --sysconfdir=/etc \ > --mandir=$XORG_PREFIX/share/man --localstatedir=/var" > > KDE would have > > export KDE_CONFIG="--prefix=$KDE_PREFIX --sysconfdir=/etc/kde \ > --disable-debug --disable-dependency-tracking > > Other necessary options could be then added to the configure line, like > elsewhere in Xorg. I'm aware that sysconfdir would be redundant for > some parts of KDE, but it doesn't hurt anything and would simplify the > commands. >
Ugh...just finished the core and now you want to throw new commands at me?!?! ;-) I'd say hold on that for now, but if you want to slap together a patch for KDE and do a full rebuild (or if you already built it that way) to test the instructions, then we can get it there for this release. I'm running with your patch verbatim, so just do an 'svn up' on that copy of the book sources. I'm not going to remove the note yet. As to Gnome, it's build is much more fine grained, (read difficult because it's not a few groups of big packages) and IIRC, packages don't always follow the same rules regarding the configure switches. It's *probably* not that simple for gnome, but I haven't tried it yet either so I might be wrong. I'd also like to get the 2.20.3 update done for 6.3, but it may not be possible unless we push the release back once again. I know it's stable, it builds mostly with the same instructions, but the build order has changed slightly and requires two more packages. Really no time to properly test it. If you recall, I suggested a 6.3 branch and a package freeze for tomorrow about a month ago..which I'll bring up in another status thread. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
