9. Re: new 'xvmc' branch of intel video driver

[R. G. Newbury]

 >> 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'?

 > I should say that it's more likely that you don't have the xorg-server
 > development package which contains the XORG_DRIVER_CHECK_EXT autoconf
 > macro. It's usually in the file /usr/share/aclocal/xorg-server.m4.
 > Dan

Right you are.
I ended up doing a 'yum install xorg-x11-server-devel 
xorg-x11-server-source' and the previously missing xorg-server.m4 file 
miraculously appeared. I'm running the compile now. Probably a lot 
faster and waaaay fewer errors than before.

Thank you.
Geoff