Xorg 6.9 and 7.0 Released

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:21:43 -0500 (EST)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > > On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:22:13 -0500
> > > Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Git yer bits while they're hot. 6.9 and 7.0 have the same bits. The
> > > > difference is that 6.9 uses the old gawdawful imake-based build system
> > > > and 7.0 uses the new autotools-based build system. The new build system
> > > > isn't quite as simple and configure && make && make install, but it's
> > > > a lot closer than Imake will ever be.
> > > >
> > > > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/X11R70Release
> > > >
> > > > Kurt
> > > > --
> > >
> > > Has anyone rebuild there system with either? Especially x86_64.
> >
> > yes
> >
> Should of known Lonnie would have. Any gotchas here or any info or other item to do
> before building? Did you build 6.9 or 7.0 or both?

Both 6.9 & 7.0, more times than i'd like to think about.  There aren't any
gotchas on Redhat/FC based systems.  I can't comment about any other
distros, although i'd imagine that gentoo has an ebuild, and i know i've
seen Ubuntu folks running 7.0-pre-release versions.

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