new 'xvmc' branch of intel video driver

[Dan Nicholson]

On Dec 30, 2007 2:26 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> Zhenyu Wang <zhenyu.z.wang at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > The aim of the new 'xvmc' branch is to deprecate origin
> > 'xvmc-i915' branch with lot of cleanups and new framework
> > inside driver to add supports for more hardware media decode
> > drivers in future. It also has changes that affect users.
> >
> > The most noteable is that the origin libI915XvMC.so is replaced
> > by a single libIntelXvMC.so entry to be used on different
> > chipsets for different hardware decoders. Although currently
> > there's only one decoder for MPEG MC on 915/945/G33 series.
> > So you should change lib path in your XvMCConfig file.
> >
> > New driver option "XvMC" and config option can be used to disable
> > XvMC feature in the driver. It turns on by default.
>
> I would love to test xvmc on an intel chipset, but something is wrong.
> I updated my source xorg tree using the git-xorg script (Now 1.9G in
> total). It now has an xvmc folder in the xf86-video-intel/src/ folder.
> I followed the instructions on the Xorg wiki and used the
> /util/macros/build.sh script.
>
> But the intel driver build fails in configure, with...:
> checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
> checking for intel-gen4asm... no
> ./configure: line 20441: syntax error near unexpected token `XINERAMA,'
> ./configure: line 20441: `XORG_DRIVER_CHECK_EXT(XINERAMA, xineramaproto)'
>
> The problem appears to be that XINERAMA is not defined.
> BTW this is the master branch, but I took it that the xvmc changes had
> been committed to the master branch. I did not try pulling the xvmc branch.
> Can anyone help?

Sounds very much like you don't have the pkg-config development
package which contains the pkg-config autoconf macros. autoconf will
just pass through strings that it doesn't recognize into the final
configure shell script. This will often result in syntax errors in
configure. Do you get any output from 'grep PKG_CHECK' aclocal.m4'?

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Dan