On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> -------Original Message------- >> From: Dan Nicholson <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Error During Autoconf >> Sent: May 31 '09 04:37 >> >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Joe Sprankle <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > Brand new to this. >> > I'm attempting to learn to build kdrive and not off to a good start. >> > Configure.ac says to run autoconf to create configure script. >> > I'm receiving the following error: >> > >> > f...@foo:~/Desktop/xorg-server-1.6.1.901$ autoconf >> > configure.ac:31: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE >> > If this token and others are legitimate, please use >> > m4_pattern_allow. >> > See the Autoconf documentation. >> >> Sounds like you don't have automake installed. You'll need autoconf, >> automake and libtool to work with the git sources. Additionally, >> you'll need any other X modules that the server depends on. >> >> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Development/git >> >> It's also very probably Ubuntu has kdrive. Look for Xephyr. >> >> -- >> Dan >> _______________________________________________ >> xorg mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > > Dependencies killed the cat1 > I installed a "xorg-dev" package and autoconf runs with only the following > error: > > checking for GL... configure: error: Package requirements (glproto >= 1.4.9 > gl >= 7.1.0) were not met: > > No package 'gl' found
That's mesa's libGL. Probably you can use your distro's GL (libGL-dev or something). Otherwise, read the Development/git page I pointed you to. It shows the correct order to build all the modules so you can get a xserver. -- Dan _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
