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authorMatthieu Herrb <matthieu@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-10-05 08:08:34 +0000
committerMatthieu Herrb <matthieu@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-10-05 08:08:34 +0000
commitc28e3caaafd180f429887b905b652fe766a2a69d (patch)
tree3a7626e1f2376c768b855e5fe166e331463bf7bf /README
parent2357263216d68562e2ccabff7e43bafcbccc4f7b (diff)
- rework the blurb about NFS clock synchronisation; the configure
test was removed by todd@ some time ago. - document the need for src/sys/dev/pci/pcidevs in the build process.
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@@ -69,7 +69,10 @@ If you want to use another obj directory see below.
Requirements
A freshly checked out xenocara tree is buildable without any external
-tool. However if you start modifying things in the automake build
+tool. Only the xenocara and the src (currently only the
+src/sys/dev/pci/pcidevs file) trees are needed.
+
+However if you start modifying things in the automake build
system used by many packages, you will need to have the following
GNU autotools packages installed:
@@ -79,9 +82,8 @@ GNU autotools packages installed:
- libtool 1.5.22 (or later) (devel/libtool)
If you have your source tree on an NFS partition, make sure the clock
-of your server and client are properly synchronised. A test run by
-configure will fail if the drift is more than one second. And larger
-drifts will cause other problems during builds anyways.
+of your server and client are properly synchronised. Any significant
+drift will cause various problems during builds.
Path
@@ -206,4 +208,4 @@ The core dump will be in /var/crash.
See also <http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging>
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-$OpenBSD: README,v 1.22 2008/03/13 20:34:19 matthieu Exp $
+$OpenBSD: README,v 1.23 2008/10/05 08:08:33 matthieu Exp $