how do I build xf86-video-ati

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Thu Aug 23 17:04:09 UTC 2018


On 2018-08-23 5:36 p.m., John Lumby wrote:
> 
> By the way,  a very similar problem occurs on a debian sid/buster distro :
> *** Configuring xf86-video-ati *** [139/201]
> /data/xorg_180615/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/autogen.sh --prefix /data/xorg_180615/xorg-build --disable-Werror  --without-xmlto --without-fop --without-xsltproc 
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal -I /data/xorg_180615/xorg-build/share/aclocal --force -I m4
> aclocal: error: couldn't open directory 'm4': No such file or directory

The plot thickens. Looks like aclocal only warns if the first directory
passed via -I doesn't exist, but errors out if the second one doesn't.


Does https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/245782/ help for this issue?


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