[Xcb] XCB Build Questions

[Ian Radtke]

As a long-time coder and Linux user, I've a comparatively simple CVS 
question...  Having never really tried my hand at compiling any CVS 
source material I'm a bit out of my league without the traditional 
configure, make, make install process already prepared.

Following the process on the XCB page, I've checked out all the 
required packages.  My first hurdle (admittedly somewhat off topic) is 
trying to build and install Xproto.  No instructions are included in 
the source tree; thus far I've run the autogen.sh script but following 
that up with 'make' returns "Nothing to be done for 'all'".  What do I 
need to do?  What is the proper process for handling CVS source 
material?

I came to XCB after concluding that random X bugs in my multi-threaded 
astronomical image acquisition, frame reduction and quasi-realtime 
light curve program were external to my code.  Further research showed 
that shoddy thread support in Xlib was a fine bet for the cause of my 
errors.

Thanks for your patience and advice with my CVS ignorance...

-Ian Radtke
Associate Scientist
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Iowa State University