Re: Problem building X 4.0.2 from debian source

[Martin Albert <MartinAlbert@gmx.net>]

Hi, Frederik!

Good to hear you keep going ..  :)

On Sunday 18 February 2001 20:38, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> I tried this (now with 4.0.2-3), but the error seems to remain the
> same: What I did was:
> debian/rules source.make
> cd /xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers
> mv mga mga_old
> tar xvzf mga-1_01_05beta.tgz (to replace mga with the matrox drivers
> from Matrox)
> cd /xc/config/cf
> cp xf86site.def host.def
> I've edited host.def to include #define HaveMatroxHal YES, and also,
> I removed some of the drivers I will not be needing.
> After all this, I did make World, followed by  touch
> debian/stampdir/build and debian/rules binary
>
> This is the error message I got:
>
> In file included from xftint.h:30,
>                  from xftcfg.c:28:
> XftFreetype.h:34: parse error before `_XftFTlibrary'
> XftFreetype.h:34: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of
> `_XftFTlibrary'
> XftFreetype.h:34: ANSI C forbids data definition with no type or
> storage class
> XftFreetype.h:37: parse error before `FT_Face'
> XftFreetype.h:37: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
> XftFreetype.h:53: parse error before `}'
> XftFreetype.h:53: warning: ANSI C does not allow extra `;' outside of
> a function
> make[4]: *** [xftcfg.o] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/xfree86-4.0.2/build-tree/xc/lib/Xft' make[3]: *** [install]
> Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xfree86-4.0.2/build-tree/xc/lib'
> make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xfree86-4.0.2/build-tree/xc'
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xfree86-4.0.2/build-tree/xc'
> make: *** [debian/stampdir/install] Error 2
>
> Any more ideas, I'd appreciate them :-)
> (I'm pretty sure I could just copy the generated mga drivers over the
> standard apt-installed drivers to get a working X 4.0.2, but I would
> rather compile the whole thing myself...

Understand. Me too. Just it was a while ago - don't remember the 
details.

May be i ran into the same problem. Do you have freetype2-dev 
installed. The headers are required at least.

I also installed my own host.def. But if you do that and still want to 
build debian binary packages, you have to disable/modify some checks in 
the debian dir.

At the end of rules target install is a cmp with a MANIFEST file. 
Comment that line out.

As i've also taken out files from the server, i had to grep the 
debian/*.files.i386 files for the relevant modules and delete them 
there.

Keep going ..., greetings, martin