I. OVERVIEW
The xauth program is used to edit and display the authorization
information used in connecting to the X server.
The underlying "Authorization Protocol for X" is described in the
README file of the libXau module of X11.
II. BUILDING
Use "./autogen.sh" to configure the package and "make" to compile it.
A black box check for the correctness of the package can be initiated
by "make check" (make sure to install "cmdtest" from
http://liw.fi/cmdtest/). The installation is done by "make install".
III. COMMUNICATION
All questions regarding this software should be directed at the
Xorg mailing list:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Please submit bug reports to the Xorg bugzilla:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg
The master development code repository can be found at:
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/xauth
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xauth
For patch submission instructions, see:
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
For more information on the git code manager, see:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage
IV. RELEASING
This section describes how to release a new version of xauth to the
public. A detailed description of this process can be found at
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ReleaseHOWTO with a
few clarification below.
Remember, that the last commit _must_ include the version string in
its diff (not the commit message). This is typically done by
incrementing the version string in configure.ac.
For releasing under Fedora make sure, that
/usr/share/util-macros/INSTALL exists. If not, then please create that
file.
To release a new version of xauth, please follow this steps:
* git clone ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/xauth
* cd xauth ; ./autogen.sh ; make ; make check
* follow ReleaseHowto inside this directory.
Ignore these errors shown during release.sh:
/bin/sh: ../.changelog.tmp: Permission denied
git directory not found: installing possibly empty changelog.
cp: cannot create regular file '../.INSTALL.tmp': Permission denied
util-macros "pkgdatadir" from xorg-macros.pc not found: installing possibly empty INSTALL.
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