I am trying to build the xorg Xserver (because I want to profile it with -p or -pg) and getting build breaks. After getting past several of the libs requiring an empty 'm4' directory, The first is a complaint that 'fontconfig' is installed in a non-standard path when building lib/libXft . I have fontconfig installed in the normal way (Ubuntu 24.04); would I do better to install a different linux distribution on my build machine, and if so which one ?
There is also a complaint about missing build.ninja when trying to build xserver. What should I do about this ? I would appreciate a reply directly to my email address as I have't been able to subscribe to the mailing list; the list manager always says my passwords don't match. Thanks ! Chris Ward
