Re: problems with several patches

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, [email protected] wrote:

> I'm building XFree86 4.6+patches on a RedHat 7.2 basis (yes, I know this
> is OLD).
> The following patches are causing errors :

> 1) 4.6.99.3-4.6.99.4.diff.bz2 : the xterm binary is not created

> There is no install:: line for xterm in the Makefile.

This seems to imply that your host.def is such that both 
InstallXtermSet[GU}ID end up set to NO.  Is this so?

> 2) 4.6.99.23-4.6.99.24.diff.bz2 : compilation error for ftfuncs.c
> (freetype) :

> ftfuncs.c:45:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
> ftfuncs.c:46:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
> ftfuncs.c:47:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
> ftfuncs.c:48:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
> ftfuncs.c:49:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
> ftfuncs.c:50:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
> ftfuncs.c:51:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
> ftfuncs.c:52:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>

> The error seems to come from several include lines ; here is the first one
> :
> #include FT_FREETYPE_H

> FT_FREETYPE_H (and the other macros) should be expanded to a filename, but
> doesn't ...

What compiler version does Red Hat 7.2 install?  I forget.

> 3) 4.6.99.23-4.6.99.24.diff.bz2 : missing layer.h file

> installing driver SDK in programs/Xserver/miext/layer/module...
> make[5]: Entering
> `/home/rpm/BUILD/XFree86-4.6.0/xc/programs/Xserver/miext/layer/module'
> install -c liblayer.a
> /home/rpm/tmp/XFree86-4.6.0-root/usr/X11R6/lib/Server/modules/.
> install -c -m 0444 layer.h
> /home/rpm/tmp/XFree86-4.6.0-root/usr/X11R6/lib/Server/include
> install: cannot stat `layer.h': No such file or directory

> In fact, both miext/layer/Makefile and miext/layer/module/Makefile try to
> install layer.h
> But the file in only in the first directory.

This is an oversight, which I'll fix shortly.

Thanks.

Marc.

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