Whenever I get a chance, I'll try upgrading my version of autoconf and
see if that allows me to build successfully with 7.5.


On 11/15/10 9:41 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> DRC wrote:
>> 'build-xorg -version 7.5' should be considered an experimental feature
>> at the moment.  I have never been able to successfully build TigerVNC
>> against Xorg 7.5 on RedHat Enterprise 4 or 5.  Currently, I get an error
>> when build-xorg tries to autoconf the Xorg source:
>>
>> configure.ac:468: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
>>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>>       See the Autoconf documentation.
>> configure:463: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY
>> configure:2493: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_CC_C99
>> configure:4791: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_VERSION_COMPARE
>> configure:4793: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
>> autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
>>
>> My suspicion is that Xorg 7.5 requires a newer version of autoconf than
>> I have, although its configure.ac file still claims to support 2.57 and
>> later.  You may be running into a similar issue.
> 
> We (X.Org) have fixed that in 7.6 to specify the minimum as autoconf 2.60 in
> most of the X.Org modules.   But I've also not had problems building our
> (Solaris) TigerVNC packages with our X11R7.5 packages, though we don't use
> the build-xorg script for that.
> 

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