Debug build of X doesn't seem to load XF86Config

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Thu Feb 27 16:45:00 GMT 2003


Which branch did you checkout?  Did you get the default branch (would 
have XF86Config support) or the 4.2.0 branch (would not have XF86Config 
support)?

Harold

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> As described in the first posting of "Cannot recompile X", I also
> compiled a debug build of X.  For this, I ran "./config/util/makeg.sh
> World".
> 
> When I now run "startx" to start the debug build of X, it seems to
> ignore my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.  I think so, because if it would load
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, it would read the FontPath entries I specified
> there.  Now, both with and without XF86Config, I get the same number of
> fonts (xlsfonts | wc -l).  In the build provided by cygwin, there's a
> difference if XF86Config-4 is present.
> 
> I also tried renaming the file to /etc/X11/XF86Config.
> 
> Did I miss something when compiling X?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alexander Skwar



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