XFree86-4.4.0

There are several files that need to be fetched from the download location:

The first three packages are the XFree86 programs, the fourth and fifth are fonts, the sixth is normal documentation, and the seventh is hardcopy documentation. There are also two packages doctools-1.3.1.tgz, which contain programs to regenerate hardcopy documentation, and utils-1.1.0.tgz, which contain GNU TAR and zlib which are already installed on an LFS system.

To check your downloads for integrity, download the SUMS.md5sum file. Then:

md5sum -c SUMS.md5sum

The only errors you should see are for README, doctools-1.3.1.tgz, utils-1.1.0.tgz and XFree86-xtest-4.0.x.tar.bz2 files if you did not download them.

If you have an Intel P6 (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later), it is recommended that you compile MTRR (Memory Type Range Registers) support into the kernel. The kernel can map Cyrix and AMD CPUs to the MTRR interface, so selecting this option is useful for those processors also. This option is found in the "Processor type and features" menu. It can increase performance of image write operations 2.5 times or more on PCI or AGP video cards.

In the "Character Devices" section, enable AGP Support and select the chipset support on your motherboard. If you do not know the chipset, you may select all the chip types at the expense of extra kernel size. You can usually determine your motherboard's chipset by running the command lspci, a program from the PCI Utilities-2.1.11 package.

In the "Character Devices" section, disable Direct Rendering Manager unless you have a Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) supported video card. A complete list of DRI supported video cards can be found at http://dri.sourceforge.net in the Status section. Currently, supported cards include those from 3dfx (Voodoo, Banshee), 3Dlabs, ATI (Rage Pro, Rage 128, Radeon 7X00, Radeon 2), Intel (i810, i815), and Matrox (G200, G400, G450).

Additionally NVidia provides their own closed source binary drivers, which do not make use of DRI. If you intend to use these drivers, do not enable DRI.

If you made any changes to the kernel configuration, recompile and install the new kernel.

Note

If you build XFree86 in a chroot environment, make sure the kernel version of the base system and the target system are the same.

Although XFree86 will compile without a host.def file, the following file is recommended for customizing the installation. Start from the xc directory.

Note

The host.def file is a C file, not the usual configuration file. If you make any changes, be sure the comment characters (/* and */) are balanced. Most of the entries in the file below are commented out with the default settings shown.

cat > config/cf/host.def << "EOF"
/* Begin XFree86 host.def file */

/* System Related Information.  If you read and configure only one
 * section then it should be this one.  The Intel architecture defaults 
 * are set for a i686 and higher.  Axp is for the Alpha architecture 
 * and Ppc is for the Power PC.  Note that there have been reports that 
 * the Ppc optimization line causes segmentation faults during build.
 * If that happens, try building without the DefaultGcc2PpcOpt line. */

/* #define DefaultGcc2i386Opt  -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i686 */
/* #define DefaultGcc2AxpOpt   -O2 -mcpu=ev6 */
/* #define DefaultGcc2PpcOpt   -O2 -mcpu=750 */

/* The following definitions are normally set properly by XFree86's 
 * scripts. You can uncomment them if you want to make sure. *********/
 
/* #define HasMTRRSupport      YES  */ /* Enabled in kernel; */
                                       /* see kernel docs */
/* #define HasMMXSupport        NO  */ /* Any i586 or above */
/* #define HasKatmaiSupport     NO  */ /* PIII SSE instructions */
/* #define Has3DNowSupport      NO  */ /* AMD instructions */


/* This setting reduces compile time a little by omitting rarely used 
 * input devices.  You can find the complete list in 
 * config/cf/xfree86.cf *********************************************/
 
#define XInputDrivers                 mouse void

/* VIDEO DRIVERS ****************************************************/

/* If you are sure you only want the drivers for one or a few video 
 * cards, you can delete the drivers you do not want. ***************/ 


#define XF86CardDrivers  mga glint nv tga s3 s3virge sis rendition \
                         neomagic i740 tdfx savage \
                         cirrus vmware tseng trident chips apm \
                         GlideDriver fbdev i128 nsc \
                         ati i810 AgpGartDrivers DevelDrivers ark \
                         cyrix siliconmotion \
                         vesa vga \
                         dummy XF86OSCardDrivers XF86ExtraCardDrivers


/* USER AND SYSTEM DEFAULT PATHS *************************************/

/* These settings set the PATH variables used by xdm. See README for */
/* detailed description and modify the following as per your need. ***/

/* #define DefaultSystemPath \
       /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin */
/* #define DefaultUserPath /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin */

/* FONT SERVER AND LIBRARY SETTINGS **********************************/

/* These settings are the defaults  **********************************/

/* #define BuildFontServer       YES  */ /*For Ghostscript Print Server*/
/* #define SharedLibFont         YES  */
/* #define CompressAllFonts      YES  */
/* #define GzipFontCompression   YES  */

/* These settings ensure we use our libraries ************************/
#define HasFreetype2             YES
#define HasFontconfig            YES
#define HasExpat                 YES
#define HasLibpng                YES
#define HasZlib                  YES

/* The font path can be redefined in the XF86Config file *************/

/*
#define DefaultFontPath          $(FONTDIR)/misc/,$(FONTDIR)/75dpi/,\
$(FONTDIR)/100dpi/,$(FONTDIR)/Type1,$(FONTDIR)/local,\
$(FONTDIR)/TrueType,$(FONTDIR)/CID,$(FONTDIR)/Speedo
*/


/* INTERNATIONAL FONTS.  Change to YES if you need any of them.  These
 * are the defaults. **************************************************/

/* #define BuildCyrillicFonts            NO  */
/* #define BuildArabicFonts              NO  */
/* #define BuildISO8859_6Fonts           NO  */
/* #define BuildGreekFonts               NO  */
/* #define BuildISO8859_7Fonts           NO  */
/* #define BuildHebrewFonts              NO  */
/* #define BuildISO8859_8Fonts           NO  */
/* #define BuildKOI8_RFonts              NO  */
/* #define BuildJapaneseFonts            NO  */
/* #define BuildJISX0201Fonts            NO  */
/* #define BuildKoreanFonts              NO  */
/* #define BuildChineseFonts             NO  */

/* DOCUMENTATION SETTINGS ********************************************/

/* These setting are the defaults. ***********************************/

/* #define BuildLinuxDocHtml        NO  */  /* X Docs in Html format */
/* #define BuildLinuxDocPS          NO  */  /* PostScript format */
/* #define BuildAllSpecsDocs        NO  */  /* Various docs */
/* #define BuildHtmlManPages        NO  */

/* GENERAL SETTINGS: You generally want to leave these alone when
 * building X on an LFS system ***************************************/

#define GccWarningOptions         -pipe /* Speed up compiles */
#define TermcapLibrary            -lncurses
#define XprtServer                YES /* Needed by realplayer */
#define XnestServer               YES
#define XAppLoadDir               EtcX11Directory/app-defaults
#define VarLibDir                 /var/lib
#define XFree86Devel               NO
#define FSUseSyslog               YES
#define ThreadedX                 YES
#define HasPam                     NO        
#define SystemManDirectory        /usr/share/man /*Instead of /usr/man*/
#define HasLibCrypt               YES
#define InstallXinitConfig        YES
#define InstallXdmConfig          YES
#define ForceNormalLib            YES
#define BuildSpecsDocs             NO

/* End XFree86 host.def file */
EOF

Edit the file for your hardware and desires.

Some vulnerabilities were reported in libXpm. A remote user may be able to execute arbitrary code on applications that use libXpm. The Xorg team released a patch for their version 6.8.0 but it works for XFree86 as well. Apply the patch:

patch -Np1 -i ../xorg-CAN-2004-0687-0688.patch

Install XFree86 by running the following commands:

sed -i -e "s@^#include <linux/config.h>@/* & */@" \
    `grep -lr linux/config.h *` &&
( make WORLDOPTS="" World 2>&1 | \
    tee xfree-compile.log && exit $PIPESTATUS )

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
make install.man &&
ln -sf ../X11R6/bin /usr/bin/X11 &&
ln -sf ../X11R6/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11 &&
ln -sf ../X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11