Subject: Re: Xmac68k building with reachover tools
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/03/2004 09:31:24
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Allen Briggs wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:07:07AM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, David P. Reese Jr. wrote:
> > > I've managed to get Xmac68k building from the XFree86 4.x code base with
> > > the reachover tools.
>
> Excellent!
>
> > > I didn't bother to hook Xmac68k to the native XFree 4.x build.  It takes
> > > about 20 hours to build X on the Quadra 700 that I have.
> > I can do that after you commit. It only takes about 6-8 hours on my
> > Quadra 630 (with NFS mounted source).
>
> I don't think David can commit it, but if he's willing, perhaps you
> could.

Yes, of course.

> Also note that if it's done right, you should be able to cross-compile
> from a faster box.  That's one impetus for doing this--the release
> engineering team will be able to build complete X sets as part of
> the auto-build framework.

Absolutely. It's still important that the native build works, so
that the XFree86 folks can take our changes back, but, as I said,
I'll take care of that.

Frederick