Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!morgan.COM!jordan From: jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Supporting more than one architecture? Message-ID: <9002012353.AA24393@Morgan.COM> Date: 1 Feb 90 23:53:38 GMT References: <9001290214.AA08767@bnrmtl.com> Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root) Organization: Morgan Stanley and Co., NY, NY Lines: 25 Richard Young asks: My question: How much of the distribution needs to be re-compiled to support this new architecture. My instinct tells me that only ./mit/server and ./mit/extensions/server are affected, but I have been wrong before... If you view the distribution as the following three parts: /usr/bin/X11 /usr/lib/X11 /usr/lib/lib*X* Then the first two are the ones you need to recompile. Which brings me to my current beef: "make install" does way more work than it needs to. In particular, every time you run it, it will "install -c" nearly everything (all the header files and fonts, the binaries and the libraries -- not sure if that leaves anything left) -- that is, there are no checks to see if these files have changed before installing. Bummer. /jordan