Martin Ward wrote: > On 21/06/13 18:31, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:18:54AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>>> 1. Do I need the Glamor EGL driver? >>>> >>>> My system has NVIDIA Corporation NV37GL [Quadro PCI-E Series] video. >>>> >>> Almost certainly not - required for radeon South Islands, optional >>> for radeon from R300 to Northern Islands. >> We need to say that in the book. Xorg starts up for me using the >> nouveau drivers. >> >>>> 2. If I do need it, it fails for me at autoreconf: >>>> >>>> configure.ac:44: error: must install xorg-macros 1.8 or later before >>>> running autoconf/autogen >>>> >>>> Where do we get xorg-macros 1.8? The latest I see is util-macros-1.17 >>>> and the file /opt/xorg/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4 says >>>> XORG_MACROS_VERSION(1.1) >>>> >>> That is the correct file, and it contains a lot of different >>> conditionals. It starts with a comment, then an example of how to >>> specify a required version. I don't immediately understand it, but >>> you must be failing at the test for MAN_SUBSTS in >>> XORG_MANPAGE_SECTIONS. >> I do see this in the file: >> >> m4_defun([XORG_MACROS_VERSION],[ >> m4_define([vers_have], [1.17]) >> ... >> # Added MAN_SUBSTS in version 1.8 >> # Added AC_PROG_SED in version 1.8 >> >> Looking at the glamor configure.ac file, I'm trying to figure out how >> the /opt/xorg/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4 gets pulled in. >> >> I did get it to work by >> >> $ cd /usr/share/aclocal >> $ sudo ln -s /opt/xorg/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4
> You need to either create a dirlist file with the relevant paths for > the macros directories or set > ACLOCAL_PATH accordingly > > see > > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Macro-Search-Path.html#ACLOCAL_005fPATH Thanks, I just figured that out myself. What we need is: ACLOCAL_PATH=$XORG_PREFIX/share/aclocal autoreconf -fi That seems to do what we want. Alternatively, we could discuss setting ACLOCAL_PATH in the intro to xorg section. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page