Building NV driver from git

[Corbin Simpson]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
> Running Debian wheezy
>
> After cloning the git repo for:
>
>   git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nv
>
> I got a slug of errors when running ./autogen.sh
>
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal
> configure.ac:33: error: must install xorg-macros 1.8 or later before running autoconf/autogen
> configure.ac:33: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
>
>
> So is it just the macros I must have? And where are they obtained

If you don't mind me asking, why are you using nv? Debian offers
nouveau. Also, is there a problem with Debian's nv or nouveau?

~ C.

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Corbin Simpson
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