Bug 2060

Summary:	BUILDING doesn't describe testing prerequisities
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Karel Clock Kulhavy <clock>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	alan.coopersmith, roland.mainz
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
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Bug Blocks:	3643

Description Karel Clock Kulhavy 2004-12-12 04:24:30 UTC

BUILDING reads:
"The build tools
known to be required include: gcc, make, C library development package, bi-
son, flex, zlib (development package), ncurses (development package), font-
config (development package), expat (development package), and Perl"

Nothing is said about
* how to meet these prerequisities if those packages weren't installed
previously - usually list of official homepages of the projects that contain a
step-by-step guide how to install on a system where the package wasn't previously
installed
* How to test if an already installed package meets requirements imposed by
xserver (integrity, version, etc.) - usually list of required static and dynamic
libraries in certain paths, includes in certain paths, .pc files in certain paths
etc.

I suggest the following:
* answers to outlined questions to be deterined by authorized persons (presumably
the developers of xserver)
* answers put into BUILDING together with list of required libraries

Comment 1 Siward de Groot 2005-08-07 22:26:54 UTC

Created attachment 3285 [details] [review]
Proposed patch to fix the problem

Comment 2 Alan Coopersmith 2005-11-05 10:24:27 UTC

Proposed patch from comment #1 was lost in bugzilla disk death.   Please 
reattach.

Comment 3 Alan Coopersmith 2005-12-21 10:55:53 UTC

Mostly fixed in Xorg 6.9 BUILDING instructions.

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