compiling xcompmgr, xorg-macros

[Dan]

2009/2/20, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>:
> 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).

That's it! Compiles perfectly now, thanks for the info -

Dan
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