built Xephyr from source but it complains about missing XKB, and other things.

[...]

Thanks Alan.

./configure --help is something important that I didn't know.


On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Alan Coopersmith <
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 01/25/14 02:32 PM, ... wrote:
>
>> @ Alan:
>>
>> Thanks.  I have been unable to find a comprehensive list of what
>> directories I
>> would need to set.  I suspect that these xkb issues are just the first in
>> a
>> longer list (for instance, there is a long list of success messages that
>> do not
>> appear.  So even making this error go away is not success).
>>
>
> ./configure --help will list all the flags.
>
>
>  I am fine clobbering my repo version.  Could I set the --prefix to
>> overlap the
>> repo version?  Or, do you know where I could find a more comprehensive
>> list of
>> paths I can and should define at compile time?  Or, do you know anything
>> about
>> getting the source from the Ubuntu repo and compiling it with
>> --enable-kdrive-evdev and --enable-glx-tls?
>>
>
> Sorry - I don't use Ubuntu and don't know how to compile stuff from their
> repos,
> but I suspect if you figured that out you'd find the right set of flags to
> overwrite the version from their packages.
>
>
>  I tried --with-xkb-bin-directory=/usr/bin/ --with-xkb-path=/var/lib/xkb/
>> and I
>> still get the same XKB error.
>>
>> Not sure if the xkb-path is right.
>>
>> $ ls /var/lib/xkb/
>> README.compiled
>> server-02D8252E59564A234380F1E5417646A9DB3B7452.xkm
>> server-53628FFEAE787BDF7F5128B07068E2A1D9DEC814.xkm
>> server-8AA988DD479FAABEC4FC3CCCF4CC29B4948840B4.xkm
>> server-8C3648A5FD728529D869F46730BE1BC287DB231C.xkm
>> server-B20D7FC79C7F597315E3E501AEF10E0D866E8E92.xkm
>>
>
> Nope, that's not it - it should be something more like this:
>
> % ls /usr/share/X11/xkb/
> compat/       geometry/     README        symbols/
> compiled/     keycodes/     rules/        types/
>
> The /var/lib/xkb directory is the one for --with-xkb-output, not
> --with-xkb-path.
>
>
> --
>         -Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>          Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
>
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