[comp.windows.x] Installation of X11R3 with 55 MBytes of free disk space...

lane%kanga@cs.umass.EDU (11/18/88)

	I am fairly new to Makefiles and want to install
	X11R3 in sections so I can delete the object files
	once the necessary library and executable files are
	generated.  

	After getting the compressed X11R3_core_distribution via ftp,
	uncompressing it and then running it through "tar -xvf",
	I have 25.5 MBytes free.

	I plan to install the fonts, binaries, etc. in 
	/usr/machine/users/local and then install symbolic links from
	/usr/lib/X11, /usr/bin/X11, etc.

	Does anyone have reccomendations on how I should proceed?
	I am installing the software on a SUN-3/180 running SunOS-3.5.
	
	I have read the ReleaseNotes, the README in server/ddx/sun,
	util/imake.includes/Sun.macros and util/imake.includes/Imake.tmpl.
	So far, I've run afoul twice trying to install this system.

					-- Thanks!

					   Miles Lane

				Addresses: lane@kanga.tcp.cs.umass.edu
					   CSNET%"lane@umass"

xacct@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (X-Windows Account) (11/19/88)

From article <8811172027.AA00715@kanga.lpr.edu>, by lane%kanga@cs.umass.EDU:
" 
" 	I am fairly new to Makefiles and want to install
" 	X11R3 in sections so I can delete the object files
" 	once the necessary library and executable files are
" 	generated.  
" 
" 	After getting the compressed X11R3_core_distribution via ftp,
" 	uncompressing it and then running it through "tar -xvf",
" 	I have 25.5 MBytes free.

I just went through this with R2, but with less free space.
I edited the highest level Makefile by commenting out all the
list of "directories to make" except the first, then extracted
the source for this directory from the .tar.Z file, then
did "make Makefiles" and "make World".  Then clean up by
deleting all .o and .c files.  Then reedit the Makefile to
include only the second of the "directories to make", and
repeat, and so on for each of the main subdirectories.

Occasionally I had to edit one of the subsidiary Makefiles to
remove a dependency on source or object files I had previously
deleted.  There were other minor problems, which I've repressed.

Going through this is not much fun.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu