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authorSøren Sandmann Pedersen <ssp@src.gnome.org>2004-11-12 15:21:07 +0000
committerSøren Sandmann Pedersen <ssp@src.gnome.org>2004-11-12 15:21:07 +0000
commit17e3ce236bc8cd7af0e9094686125278b4285a94 (patch)
tree59f47ee3214896d8b61139dbdc3f40e490257c3d /README
parent5136a4049c449d1ef7a17abc6146bc4ecd12a352 (diff)
various small fixes
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--- a/README
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@@ -23,24 +23,26 @@ program "sysprof".
- "make World"
(2) Install the X server making sure it can't see any ".a" files. If
- You install on top of an existing installation, just do
+ you install on top of an existing installation, just do
find /usr/X11R6/lib/"*.a" | sudo xargs rm
- and install the newly compiled X server. If a ".so" X server
- finds .a files in its module path it will try to load those
- in preference to .so files and this causes symbol resolution
- problems
+ and install the newly compiled X server.
+
+ If a ".so" X server finds .a files in its module path it will
+ try to load those in preference to .so files and this causes
+ symbol resolution problems
(3) Run your new X server
(4) Run sysprof as root. This is necessary because the X server binary
for security reasons is not readable by regular users. I could tell
- you why this is so, but then I'd have to kill you.
+ you why, but then I'd have to kill you.
+
Credits:
- Kristian Høgsberg for the first port to kernel 2.6
- Owen Taylor for the symbol lookup code in memprof
+ Kristian Høgsberg for the first port to the 2.6 kernel.
+ Owen Taylor for the symbol lookup code in memprof
Søren