[Nouveau] git compile failure

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:16:18 -0800
Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:

> OK, I've tried that....  No joy.  The problem is that the autogen script 
> doesn't find any of the correct header files.  It's a debian dependency 
> issue.  Even when I edit the source by hand to put in the correct 
> locations, it still fails.  I think I'm wasting a lot of time trying to 
> reverse-engineer the debian deps rather than building nouveau.  Is there 
> a 'getting started' howto for building X?  I only need the very basics 
> for testing nouveau.  Is there some basic basic script that will pull 
> down the tarballs and allow me to install a minimal xorg for testing 
> nouveau?

Could you provide some basic information, like which Debian you are using
and which Xorg version you have?

I trust you already saw
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/DebianTips
and it didn't help?

I asked on IRC, and two Debian users replied saying they don't have the
problem (unstable+experimental, and Lenny).

-- 
Pekka Paalanen
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