Building xorg for the first time

[Chris Ward]

I am trying to build the xorg Xserver (because I want to profile it with -p
or -pg) and getting build breaks. After getting past several of the libs
requiring an empty 'm4' directory, The first is a complaint that
'fontconfig' is installed in a non-standard path when building lib/libXft .
I have fontconfig installed in the normal way (Ubuntu 24.04); would I do
better to install a different linux distribution on my build machine, and
if so which one ?

There is also a complaint about missing build.ninja when trying to build
xserver. What should I do about this ?

I would appreciate a reply directly to my email address as I have't been
able to subscribe to the mailing list; the list manager always says my
passwords don't match.

Thanks !

Chris Ward
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