Xorg 6.9 and 7.0 Released

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:41:17PM -0700, Collins Richey took 25 lines to write:
> On 12/21/05, 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
> >
> 
> Should be a minefield of fun. Even my bleeding edge Ubuntu Dapper
> system hasn't gotten beyond 6.8.

It's certainly proven to be so. I got everything built but the X server
and its driver modules built. Turns out I needed to get libdrm (I
didn't even know there *was* such a beast) built before the X server
and drivers would build. I'll keep you posted.

Kurt
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