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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Installation of X
Message-ID: <8812161506.AA26705@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 16 Dec 88 15:06:13 GMT
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Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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> During installation of X, one issues the command:
> 
>                         make World
> 
> Suppose the above command is not successful (i.e. make exits abnormally),
> are there things to be set right before one makes "World" again?

Just do make World again.  It does a "make clean" to flush all the old stuff.
If you are paranoid then you might want to save a copy of the original
Makefiles.


> What I mean is, are there some permanent changes made by the above command
> that are to be set all right before one issues it again?

If there are then it is a bug.  R2 had a few header and source files that were
generated and never deleted, but these were (hopefully all) flushed in R3. 


> In short, can we do installation for the second time without caring for the
> changes made by the first installation?

That's the plan.