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Søren Sandmann Pedersen
2004-11-12 15:21:07 +00:00
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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 H<>gsberg for the first port to kernel 2.6
Owen Taylor for the symbol lookup code in memprof
Kristian H<>gsberg for the first port to the 2.6 kernel.
Owen Taylor for the symbol lookup code in memprof
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