Xorg Utilities

Introduction to Xorg Utilities

The Xorg utility packages provide needed utilities, not for the Xorg installation itself, but for other applications that make use of legacy X11R6 installation methods.

Package Information

Xorg Utilities Dependencies

Required

pkg-config-0.20 and Xorg Protocol Headers

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Xorg7Utilities

Downloading Xorg Utilities

To download the needed files using wget, use the following commands:

wget http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/files/BLFS/xorg/util-7.1.wget &&
mkdir util &&
cd util &&
wget -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/util/ \
     -i ../util-7.1.wget

Installation of Xorg Utilities

First install the xorg-cf-files package with the following commands:

sed -i "s@/usr/X11R6@$XORG_PREFIX@" X11.tmpl &&
./configure $XORG_CONFIG --with-config-dir=$XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/config

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now as the root user:

make install

Next, install the Imake package with these commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG --with-config-dir=$XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/config &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now as the root user:

make install

Finally, build the four remaining packages with the standard build commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

These packages do not provide test suites.

Now as the root user:

make install

Last updated on 2007-01-23 12:22:14 -0600