[Openchrome-users] [openChrome] #73: Compilation problems

[Jon Nettleton]

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 21:00 +0000, openChrome wrote:
> #73: Compilation problems
> -----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
> Reporter:  michel.kapel at skynet.be  |       Owner:  somebody
>     Type:  defect                  |      Status:  new     
> Priority:  minor                   |   Component:  xdriver 
>  Version:                          |    Keywords:  autogen 
> -----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
>  Hello I have some problems with the autogen on an Ubuntu Dapper with an
>  AMD64 proc.
>  This is the output of the ./autogen.sh
> 
>  autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
>  autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
>  autoreconf: running: aclocal  --output=aclocal.m4t
>  autoreconf: `aclocal.m4' is unchanged
>  autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
>  autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy
>  libtoolize: `config.guess' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
>  libtoolize: `config.sub' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
>  libtoolize: `ltmain.sh' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
>  autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
>  autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
>  autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy
>  configure.ac: 30: required file `./[config.h].in' not found
>  unichrome/Makefile.am:33: via_drv_la_SOURCES defined both conditionally
>  and unconditionally
>  unichrome/Makefile.am:26: EXTRA_DIST defined both conditionally and
>  unconditionally
>  automake: unichrome/Makefile.am: warning: automake does not support
>  EXTRA_DIST being defined conditionally
>  automake: libxvmc/Makefile.am: warning: automake does not support
>  libviaXvMC_la_LDFLAGS being defined conditionally
>  automake: libxvmc/Makefile.am: warning: automake does not support
>  libviaXvMCPro_la_LDFLAGS being defined conditionally
>  automake: libxvmc/Makefile.am: warning: automake does not support
>  EXTRA_DIST being defined conditionally
>  man/Makefile.am:30: invalid unused variable name: `driverman_SOURCES'
>  autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> 
>  These are the Ubuntu packages that are present on my system
> 
>  subversion
>  build-essential
>  automake1.9
>  libtool
>  pkg-config
>  xserver-xorg-dev
>  libxvmc-dev
>  x11proto-gl-dev
>  libglu1-mesa-dev
>  x11proto-core-dev
>  libgl1-mesa-dev
>  cvs
> 
>  tried to follow the procedure described here
>  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenChrome
>  but didn't have much success.
>  Sorry but I don't know a thing about autotools so I can't go much further.
> 
>  Any suggestions welcome.
>  Good luck
> 

you need to run ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr  The autotools need to find
your existing installation of Xorg in order to set things up properly.
I plan on making it a bit smarter, but haven't had the time.  I would
normally post this in trac, but it appears to be down.

Jon