Praedor Tempus wrote: > > OK, this appears to be a chicken and egg problem on > the compile end. > > I try and try to compile the XFree86-4.0.1-21mdk.src.rpm. > It gets nearly completely done only to produce bupkis, nada, > nuthin'. Instead, I get a message about it not finding > glide_drv.o...after a LONG compile process. First off, why > wouldn't it KNOW that this is missing well before starting > compilation? That is what configure is for, is it not, [...] I finally managed to get XFree86 to compile and actually produce rpms. I had to jump through some indefensible hoops to do it, however. After seeing the glide_drv.o error that was a showstopper as far as building XFree was concerned, I did a websearch for glide_drv.o and found a site that had that particular file available for download. I downloaded it and not knowing where it should go, I placed it in my kernel modules/video directory and made a symlink from it to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules. Upon trying to build XFree86 yet again, it actually completed and made rpms, which I installed and am using now. There is NO mention anywhere that there is an (absolute) dependency upon glide_drv.o for successful XFree86 building. The configure script doesn't look for it prior to compilation. It is only found missing AFTER compilation is essentially complete and the rpm binary build process is supposed to take place. You get to the "..rpm-provides" and "...rpm-requires" portion of the build process at which point rpms are normally written. You just don't get anything at all to show for the long time spent compiling. I had already compiled and installed X11R6-contrib. I had built XFree86-compat-3.3.6. No dependency problems were brought up at the beginning of the build process. Going out to the net and finding that one file fixed the problem. As for Mesa, I am still fighting with it. praedor
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