Building X11R6.8 in Fedora 15 - Flex not found

[Louis Lagendijk]

On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 08:41 +0200, Weather wrote:
> 
> Doug Kuvaas <doug.kuvaas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >I am trying to build an older version of X Server on Fedora 15 to
> >allow me to run a legacy application.  Fedora 8, which functions
> >correctly for our application, will not install on a new computer for
> >some reason, presumably because the new hardware uses UEFI, and Fedora
> >15 does not correctly run the application.
> 
> 
> If the application runs with remote display on F15 the easiest solution would be to keep some old iron just for that app.
would it not be fairly easy to install Fedora 8 in a virtual machine in
KVM. That bypasses ther UEFI problems....