Re: [gdm-list] an issue about gdm make

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Yi Yu:

> Recently, I change some gdm code in daemon and update it to my ubuntu,
> it works fine. But I found a strange thing, in the directory /usr/sbin/,
> the original small gdm daemon is replaced by a script with the same name
> "gdm" and a big bin file gdm-binary, in this gdm script the gdm-binary
> is launched.

This is how GDM normally builds.  If you look at the file
gdm/daemon/gdm.in, this gets built and installed as the /usr/sbin/gdm
script.  gdm-binary is the actual GDM daemon process.  The shell script
just makes sure that some environment variables are set up reasonably
before starting the daemon.

> Moreover, in the code directory, only the gdm-binary is
> there, I can not find another application named with gdm created by me
> when doing make.

As I say above, you should notice the script as gdm/daemon/gdm.in in
the source code.

> *_How can I make gdm code to create the gdm daemon as
> shown in original ubuntu? my ubuntu version is 8.10._*
> *__*
> BTW,_* How can I get  gdm configure option for ubuntu?*_ Since there are
> some issues as I had done with below cmd:
>      ./configure *--prefix= --exex-prefix=/usr           //more option????*
>      make
>      make install

If nobody familiar with how to build GDM on Ubuntu responds here, it
might be better to follow-up on a more Ubuntu-specific forum.  This
mailing list tends to be more focused on general GDM issues.

Brian