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On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 11:57 +0200, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
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libXcomposite $ git describe
libXcomposite-0.4.1-5-g0d78a27
libXcomposite $ ./autogen.sh
...
libXcomposite $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
...
checking for xmlto... no
configure: WARNING: xmlto not found - cannot create man pages without it
...
libXcomposite $ LANG=C make || echo "I'm broken"
...
Making all in man
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/z/libXcomposite/man'
WARNING: configure did not find xmlto, cannot create Xcomposite.man without it
sed -e 's|"__vendorversion__"|"libXcomposite 0.4.1" "X Version 11"|' -e 's|__xorgversion__|"libXcomposite 0.4.1" "X Version 11"|' -e 's|__xservername__|Xorg|g' -e 's|__xconfigfile__|xorg.conf|g' -e 's|__projectroot__|/usr|g' -e 's|__apploaddir__||' -e 's|__appmansuffix__|1|g' -e 's|__libmansuffix__|3|g' -e 's|__adminmansuffix__|8|g' -e 's|__miscmansuffix__|7|g' -e 's|__filemansuffix__|5|g' < Xcomposite.man > Xcomposite.3
/bin/sh: Xcomposite.man: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [Xcomposite.3] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/z/libXcomposite/man'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/z/libXcomposite'
make: *** [all] Error 2
I'm broken
Seems at least libXi and libXfont handle such case nicer.
Thanks!
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Matthieu Herrb and I and working on a comprehensive solution for a few modules in that situation. <BR>
<A HREF="http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-January/004536.html">http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-January/004536.html</A><BR>
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Excerpt:<BR>
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So I'm proposing to add a generic test to xorg-macros.m4 and replace the 3
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lines that are found in app/xfs, lib/libXcomposite, lib/libXfont, lib/libXi
and lib/libXtst by XORG_WITH_XMLTO: like this:
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Your post confirms the need for this work to be completed. In the mean time, you can invoke configure with XMLTO=/usr/bin/xmlto on the command line. This overrides the test so it won't fail even if the tool is not found.<BR>
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Thanks<BR>
Gaetan<BR>
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