Building xorg for the first time

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 05.12.24 07:57, Chris Ward wrote:
> 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 ?

Maybe this one could help ?

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/metux/xorg-testing/


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Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
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