Error During Autoconf **UPDATE**

[Dan Nicholson]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:04 PM,  <jsprankle at awlship.com> wrote:
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>>  -------Original Message-------
>>  From: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>
>>  Subject: Re: Error During Autoconf
>>  Sent: May 31 '09 04:37
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>>  On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Joe Sprankle <jsprankle at awlship.com> wrote:
>>  > Hi all,
>>  > Brand new to this.
>>  > I'm attempting to learn to build kdrive and not off to a good start.
>>  > Configure.ac says to run autoconf to create configure script.
>>  > I'm receiving the following error:
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>>  > foo at foo:~/Desktop/xorg-server-1.6.1.901$ autoconf
>>  > configure.ac:31: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>>  >      If this token and others are legitimate, please use
>>  > m4_pattern_allow.
>>  >      See the Autoconf documentation.
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>>  Sounds like you don't have automake installed. You'll need autoconf,
>>  automake and libtool to work with the git sources. Additionally,
>>  you'll need any other X modules that the server depends on.
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>>  http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Development/git
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>>  It's also very probably Ubuntu has kdrive. Look for Xephyr.
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>>  --
>>  Dan
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> Dependencies killed the cat1
> I installed a "xorg-dev" package and autoconf runs with only the following error:
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> checking for GL... configure: error: Package requirements (glproto >= 1.4.9 gl >= 7.1.0) were not met:
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> No package 'gl' found

That's mesa's libGL. Probably you can use your distro's GL (libGL-dev
or something). Otherwise, read the Development/git page I pointed you
to. It shows the correct order to build all the modules so you can get
a xserver.

--
Dan