Using checkinstall with XFree86 4.2.1

[Net Llama!]

Read the dox for checkinstall.  They warn, quite explicitly, to disable 
stripping of binaries for things like X.  So, yes, its an option for 
checkinstall.

m.w.chang wrote:
> strip? what did you mean? an option in checkinstall?
> I had problem using checkinstall to install the NVIDIA_GLX driver.
> 
> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>> Yea, you do *NOT* want to strip the binaries for X or it won't work.
>>
>>> Are there any caveats to using checkinstall to install Xfree86?
>>> I seem to remember Doug mentioning something about strip, but I'm not 
>>> sure if that pertained to X or the kernel or what.
> 
> 

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