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4. How to get XFree86 3.9.16

XFree86 3.9.16 can be found at the XFree86 ftp server, and at mirrors of this server. This snapshot is available primarily in source form. Binaries for some platforms may be made available at a later time.

The source for version 3.9.16 is split into three tarballs: X3916src-1.tgz, X3916src-2.tgz, X3916src-3.tgz. The first contains everything except the fonts and general X11 documentation. It is sufficient for building XFree86 is you already have a set of fonts. The second contains the fonts and the source for the general X11 documentation. The third contains the general X11 documentation in hardcopy format.

A source patch relative to version 3.9.15 is also available. Because of its size, it is split into two parts. The patch files are 3.9.15-3.9.16.diff1.gz and 3.9.15-3.9.16.diff2.gz. These patches should be applied to a clean 3.9.15 source tree, working from the directory containing the xc/ directory. The patches should be applied by running:

gunzip < 3.9.15-3.9.16.diff1.gz | patch -p0 -E
gunzip < 3.9.15-3.9.16.diff2.gz | patch -p0 -E
rm -fr xc/fonts/scaled/Type1/latin2

The contrib part of the distribution can be found in the following tarball: X3916contrib.tgz.

To format the XFree86 documentation, the latest version of our doctools package. That is available as doctools-1.1.tgz.


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