Problem regarding configuring X server.

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Amey Moghe <amey1288 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I mentioned in my earlier post, I am configuring X server for MPX . After
> configuration of x server for MPX ,I tried to run it by executing following
> command
>
> sudo startx -- /opt/gfx-test/bin/Xorg -verbose :1
>
> I came across following error:
>
> (EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /opt/gfx-test/share/X11/xkb/
> rules/base
> XKB: Failed to compile keymap
> Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup
> of xkeyboard-config.
>
> Fatal server error:
> Failed to activate core devices.
>
>
> For the above error I tried to install xkeyboard-config in /opt/gfx-test but
> I am facing following error:
>
> (
>   I am using following variables:
>   PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gfx-test/lib/pkgconfig
>   ACLOCAL="aclocal -I /opt/gfx-test/share/aclocal
> )
>
> intltoolize: 'intltool-extract.in' exists: use '--force' to overwrite
> intltoolize: 'intltool-merge.in' exists: use '--force' to overwrite
> intltoolize: 'intltool-update.in' exists: use '--force' to overwrite
> intltoolize: 'po/Makefile.in.in' exists: use '--force' to overwrite
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.in: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal
> configure.in:47: warning: macro `AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
> autoreconf: configure.in: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.in: not using Libtool
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
> autoreconf: configure.in: not using Autoheader
> autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
> rules/Makefile.am:184: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension
> autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... mawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
> checking for xkbcomp... /usr/bin/xkbcomp
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking dependency style of gcc... none
> checking for intltool >= 0.30... 0.37.1 found
> checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
> checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
> checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> checking for XML::Parser... ok
> ./configure: line 3877: AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT: command not found

This is an autoconf macro in the file
/usr/share/aclocal/glib-gettext.m4. I'm not sure why xkeyboard-config
needs it, but it's in the glib development package. I don't know what
distro you're on, but it's glib2-devel on fedora.

--
Dan