[ale] LFS + X windows

[Terry Lee Tucker]

There is no "fork" that is part of X. We use the standard fork from the C 
library in conjunction with XtAppAddInput to fork our X application when a 
user is running a report. I can send you the code if you are interested.

On Tuesday 29 March 2005 12:58 pm, Christopher Fowler saith:
> Isn't there a fork in X?  What fork should I use?
>
> On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 11:59, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
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> > Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > I'm doing a  LFS install and it does not discuss X.  Is there any
> > > pointers on how to compile X for a LFS install?  What version of X do I
> > > download?  Its been a long time since I've had to compile X.
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > X isn't that hard - download the entire set of sources (I believe that
> > x.org has them, but I'm not 100% certain about that).  Extract them all
> > to the same directory and read the documentation that comes with it -
> > either INSTALL or README, IIRC.  I don't recall it being that hard.  It
> > just takes forever after you type 'make world'.  And do it on a
> > partition where you have several GB avail to run the compile.
> >
> > 	- Mike
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