[Openchrome-users] build fails unther Hardy Herron

[Xavier Bachelot]

imreh_zoltan wrote:
> Re: build fails unther Hardy Herron
>> imreh_zoltan wrote:
>>> build fails unther Hardy Herron Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm using the driver quite for a while. It worked fine with the
>>> Feisty and Gutsy versions of Ubuntu. After upgrading to the latest
>>> version, Hardy, the autogen.sh throughs an error and I cannot build:
>>>
>>> checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error:
>>> C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check See `config.log' for
>>> more details.
>>>
>>> I'm attaching also my config.log file, for the details.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Zoltan.
>>>
>> You forgot the attachement.
>>
>> Hardy does ship with openchrome, although a slightly older version 
>> (0.2.901). If you still need the newest version for whatever reason, 
>> first file a bug at ubuntu bug tracker asking them to update, then start 
>> from a fresh extract of the openchrome 0.2.902 tarball.
>>
>> The 2 commands below should bring you all the packages you need to build 
>> openchrome :
>> sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-via
>> sudo apt-get install subversion autoconf automake1.9 libtool
>>
>> then inside of the freshly extracted dir :
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr
>> make
>> sudo make install
>>
>> Regards,
>> Xavier
>>
> 
> Hi Xavier,
> this solves actually not my problem. The compilation of the sources should go as it went on Gutsy, because this is a simple make after all. I think that the update to Hardy removed something from my computer, but I can't figure out what.
> 
> Anyway, here is my config.log. Perhaps this will help:
> 
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
> 
> It was created by xf86-video-openchrome configure 0.2.902, which was
> generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.  Invocation command line was
> 
>   $ ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/usr
> 
gcc is not properly installed on your machine. You're missing the glibc 
headers and the kernel headers. Please check your gcc installation.

Also, did you run the commands I gave you in a previous mail ?
sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-via
sudo apt-get install subversion autoconf automake1.9 libtool

Regards,
Xavier