<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> > Subject: Re: problems of building xserver > From: seb@esfnet.co.uk > To: shhuango@hotmail.com > CC: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:17:11 +0100 > > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 06:19 +0000, Wayne wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was building xserver by following > > http://www.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide > > While building app/bitmap, I got this error... > > > > ./configure: line 4003: syntax error near unexpected token 'BITMAP' > > ./configure: line 4003: 'XAW_CHECK_XPRINT_SUPPORT(BITMAP)' > > > > But, I had built lib/libXaw. I have no idea to fix it... > > Did I miss some steps of building??? > > > > Wayne > > I came up against this as well myself, a few days ago. The problem is > that libXaw has changed - the developers have removed libXaw.so.8, > leaving only libXaw.so.6 and libXaw.so.7. libXaw.so.8 is the one with > XPrint support in it (I think, this is slightly garbled as I am not an > expert on this) and has been removed as xprint is being deprecated. > > I got round it in some kludgy way by leaving an old copy of libXaw.so.8 > around, if I recall correctly. > > I think (I may be wrong) that the maintainers of app/bitmap and similar > apps need to make some changes to their configure.ac/Makefile.am scripts > to come in line with changes to libXaw. > > Cheers, > > Seb James > > > Hey Seb, Is there any solution to solve this problem except waiting the maintainer to fix it? Thanks Wayne <hr />Explore the seven wonders of the world <a href='http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE' target='_new'>Learn more!</a></body> </html>