compiling xcompmgr, xorg-macros

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Dan <danstowell+xorg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I checked out xcompmgr from the public git, and tried to compile it;
> the autogen.sh produced this error:
>
>  error: configure built with too old a version of xorg-macros.m4 -
> requires version 1.1.0 or newer
>
> (the version number is wrong, as in the patch I sent earlier. really,
> I have v1.1 and the script wants v1.2)
>
> So in order to get the latest xorg-macros, I cloned the public git
> from git/xorg/util/macros, ran autogen and sudo make install, fine.
>
> But I still get the same error when trying to compile xcompmgr. I'm
> sure I've missed something, but what? Any suggestions welcome.

Are you sure you're grabbing your local xorg-macros.m4 and not the
system copy? You'll want to set ACLOCAL="aclocal
-I$xprefix/share/aclocal" before running autoreconf (autogen.sh).

--
Dan