Building the X.org 7.1.1 server against Mesa CVS

[Russell Shaw]

Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> I am pursuing the angle that my compositor troubles[0] are caused by my X 
> server not being built against Mesa CVS, which is installed on my machine. To 
> that end I'm trying to recompile xorg-server 1.1.1 against a Mesa CVS tree. 
> It fails:
> 
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-mesa-source=../mesa-6.5.2.cvs20061020
> [snip]
> Checking that the source files exist for mesa module ...  
> error:   /home/andrew/src/mesa-6.5.2.cvs20061020/src/mesa/shader/slang/library/slang_version_syn.h 
> not found
> configure: error: Failed to link Mesa source tree.  Please specify a proper 
> path to Mesa sources, or disable GLX.
> 
> Is this combination possible or do I need to get a development version of the 
> X.org server module?
> 
> [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg/12152

IIRC, the mesa build only works with an absolute path to mesa. You're
using a relative path: --with-mesa-source=../mesa-6.5.2.cvs20061020