build.sh: "autogen.sh" failed on doc/xorg-docs

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 02:00:42 PDT 2015


can I ask why you are building a whole X.org instead of using a distro
packaged one?

Generally for cases where you want updated drivers you can build them
against the system packages if modern enough.

Dave.

On 14 October 2015 at 18:58, dclarke at blastwave.org
<dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:
>
> sorry .. just found this :
>
>    http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RequiredPackages/
>
>
> That is most likely the issue .. installing a whopping 1.1GB of software
> packages into Debian now.
>
>
>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>> From: "dclarke at blastwave.org" <dclarke at blastwave.org>
>> To: xorg at lists.x.org
>> Date: October 14, 2015 at 4:54 AM
>> Subject: build.sh: "autogen.sh" failed on doc/xorg-docs
>>
>>
>> On a new Debian 8 system which I simply named "xorg" I see the
>> following
>> :
>>
>> xorg$ cat /etc/debian_version
>> 8.2
>>
> <snip>
>>
>>
>> Not sure what is needed here but the build stalls at this point.
>>
>> Any hints ?
>>
>> Dennis
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