Problems while compiling xorg on Ubuntu

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 03/23/14 10:25 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2014-03-23 09:23 (GMT-0700) Alan Coopersmith composed:
>
>> On 03/22/14 04:45 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>
>>> When exactly was that change made? What I have:
>
>>> * Sun Apr 07 2013 sndirsch at suse.com
>>> - u_Fixed-build-with-INPUT_API-19.patch
>>>    * Added dummy parameters to miPointerSetPosition(...) to fix
>>>      build with INPUT_API >= 19.
>
>> So SuSE patched their package to solve it and hasn't pushed the patch back
>> upstream.
>
> Was it actually necessary? Fedora works too:
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.0.log-g5eas-z7xg20SiS-f21-1600x1200x120

Fedora patches it too, see the end of:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xorg-x11-drv-sis.git/tree/sis-0.10.7-git.patch

Can you build xf86-video-sis strictly from upstream git without a patch?
I can't, and no one else seems to be able to either, so I'm not sure why
you're arguing this.

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