[Openchrome-users] Many compilation errors on vanilla Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) system

[Jon Nettleton]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 13:09 +0100, Stuart Rossiter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Hope it's acceptable to post compilation problems (since it was for
> a vanilla OS build, thought it would be OK)......
> 
> I'm trying to compile openchrome on a basic Ubuntu Dapper setup using
> the latest 342 trunk revision and following the standard details at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenChrome.
> 
> I've changed nothing from the basic distro (other than an apt-get
> upgrade), so am using 0.1.33.2-0ubuntu4 of the xserver-xorg-driver-via
> package.  I get all kinds of basic compilation errors:
> 
> It's trying to run:
> 
> if /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
> -I. -I..    -DXFree86Server -DIN_MODULE -DXFree86Module
> -DXFree86LOADER -I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/drm
> -I/usr/include/drm -I/usr/include/X11/dri   -g -O2 -MT via_accel.lo
> -MD -MP -MF ".deps/via_accel.Tpo" -c -o via_accel.lo via_accel.c; \ 
>     then mv -f ".deps/via_accel.Tpo" ".deps/via_accel.Plo"; else rm -f
> ".deps/via_accel.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
>  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DXFree86Server -DIN_MODULE
> -DXFree86Module -DXFree86LOADER -I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/drm
> -I/usr/include/drm -I/usr/include/X11/dri -g -O2 -MT via_accel.lo -MD
> -MP -MF .deps/via_accel.Tpo -c via_accel.c  -fPIC -DPIC
> -o .libs/via_accel.o 
> 
> I won't post all the errors, but the top few are:
> 
> In file included from via.h:31,
>                  from via_accel.c:44:
> /usr/include/string.h:293: error: conflicting types for 'xf86memmove' 
> /usr/include/string.h:44: error: previous declaration of 'xf86memmove'
> was here
> /usr/include/string.h:296: error: conflicting types for 'xf86bzero'
> /usr/include/xorg/xf86_ansic.h:294: error: previous declaration of
> 'xf86bzero' was here 
> In file included from via.h:32,
>                  from via_accel.c:44:
> /usr/include/stdio.h:46: error: conflicting types for 'XF86FILE'
> /usr/include/xorg/xf86_libc.h:66: error: previous declaration of
> 'XF86FILE' was here 
> In file included from via.h:32,
>                  from via_accel.c:44:
> /usr/include/stdio.h:88: error: conflicting types for 'XF86fpos_t'
> /usr/include/xorg/xf86_libc.h:71: error: previous declaration of
> 'XF86fpos_t' was here 
> In file included from via.h:32,
>                  from via_accel.c:44:
> 
> Looks like some major differences between the dependencies source and
> the openchrome stuff. Since a change was made yesterday (6th June), I
> tried with the last revision before that as well but same result
> (given the nature of the change, didn't expect much luck). 
> 
> Is there anything fundamental I'm missing?? Is the complation prep
> clever enough to account for differing versions of dependent
> libraries?
> 
> Any insight appreciated.
> 

looks like you don't have the xorg-x11-server-sdk installed, or it is an
old version that had some bugs in it.  The Ubuntu community should be
able to help you fix this.

Jon