Xorg 7.0 build-from-tarballs.sh dies in distcleancheck

[Russell Shaw]

Andrew Haninger wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm trying to build Xorg 7.0 on Slackware 10.1 using the
> build-from-tarballs.sh script and the "everything" approach.
> 
> My build command is:
> 
> PATH=/usr/X11R6:$PATH ./build-from-tarballs.sh -d -c -D -m
> /usr/src/xorg/Mesa-6.4.1 -e -bz2 /usr/X11R6 >&make.19.log 2>&1 &
> 
> My build is currently dieing with:
> 
> rm -f TAGS ID GTAGS GRTAGS GSYMS GPATH tags
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/src/xorg/7.0/xorg-server-X11R7.0-1.0.1/xorg-se'
> rm -f config.status config.cache config.log configure.lineno
> rm -f Makefile
> ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean:
> ./hw/dmx/config/scanner.c
> make[1]: *** [distcleancheck] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/src/xorg/7.0/xorg-server-X11R7.0-1.0.1/xorg-se'
> make: *** [distcheck] Error 2
> 
> I'm not quite sure how to interpret this error. To be honest, I'm not
> entirely sure what distcheck does (besides checking that the built
> files are good) so I enabled it with the thinking that it couldn't be
> bad. Would it be better to build without -d or -D ? Is there some
> other package that I might need to upgrade?

"make distcheck" is an Autotools rule that packages the project into
a tar archive for distribution, then tests for errors by untarring
and building the project. It then does a "make distclean" to make sure
all generated files are removed. Leftover files are an error that are
fixed by editing a Makefile.am somewhere (probably
xorg/xserver/hw/dmx/config/Makefile.am).