Subject: Re: NetBSD/amd64 and XFree86.
To: Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org>
From: Andreas Kahari <ak+netbsd@freeshell.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/10/2004 08:56:41
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:47:08AM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:35:10AM +0000, Andreas Kahari wrote:
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> I'm a bit reluctant to jump up and build a new X server when
> the last time I tried that I caused myself a couple of weeks
> of "no X" grief.

As far as I know, there's nothing in XFree86 that gets installed
outside /usr/X11R6 (correct me if I'm wrong), so you could just
move that aside while trying out a new X release.

    # cd /usr
    # mv X11R6 old.X11R6
    # cd /usr/xsrc && make build


Andreas

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