trying to build X from git on Debian 6.0.6

[Dennis Clarke]

> So you are using insane C flags and you want us to debug them? try
> dropping -pedantic-errors, and maybe -std=
> 
> Dave.

Much better progress .. for a while :


======================================================================
==  Processing module/component:  "xcb/proto"
==        configuration options:   
Cloning into xcb/proto...
remote: Counting objects: 1227, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (519/519), done.
remote: Total 1227 (delta 855), reused 990 (delta 695)
Receiving objects: 100% (1227/1227), 273.79 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (855/855), done.
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I /opt/xorg/share/aclocal 
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Autoheader
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
configure.ac:9: installing `./install-sh'
configure.ac:9: installing `./missing'
xcbgen/Makefile.am:3: installing `./py-compile'
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 for xmllint... no
configure: WARNING: xmllint not found; unable to validate against schema.
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.5... none
configure: error: no suitable Python interpreter found
build.sh: "autogen.sh" failed on xcb/proto
build.sh: error processing module/component:  "xcb/proto"
aster $ 

okay .... looks like something called xmllint is required ... I'll hunt for that and then try again.

Thank you very much .. I think this is progress.

Dennis