[Xcb] XCB install on free BSD

[Jeremy A. Kolb]

>From that first warning it looks like you may not have 'check' installed 
(or at least in your PKG_CONFIG_PATH).

Jeremy

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Dickson Patton wrote:

> All,
> 
> I checked out xcb as instructed on the website and tried to install it. 
>   My autoconf.sh gives the following output:
> 
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal
> /usr/X11R6/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of 
> AM_PATH_GTK
>    run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
>    or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> aclocal:configure.ac:16: warning: macro `AM_PATH_CHECK' not found in library
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
> autoreconf: running: /usr/local/bin/autoconf
> autoreconf: running: /usr/local/bin/autoheader
> autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
> src/Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
> src/Makefile.am:1:
> src/Makefile.am:1: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add 
> `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
> src/Makefile.am:1: to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> 
> 
> I checked that AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is in configure.ac, and tried re-running 
> aclocal, autoconf and then autogen.sh as the directions indicated, but 
> got the same result.
> 
> 
> 
> my path is :
> 
> /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:
> /usr/X11R6/bin:/home/pattond/bin:/usr/local/share:.:
> /usr/local/libexec/automake19/:.:/usr/local/libexec/automake19/
> :/usr/local/lib:.
> 
> 
> 
> I also added 4 m4_pattern_allow statements to my configure.ac,
> on the advice of configure's error messages.  My configure.ac is now:
> 
> #                                               -*- Autoconf -*-
> # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
> 
> m4_pattern_allow([AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE])
> m4_pattern_allow([AM_PATH_CHECK])
> m4_pattern_allow([AM_CONDITIONAL])
> m4_pattern_allow([AC_PROG_LIBTOOL])
> 
> AC_PREREQ(2.57)
> AC_INIT([libXCB],
>          0.9,
>          [xcb at lists.freedesktop.org])
> AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([xcb.pc.in])
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2])
> 
> AM_PATH_CHECK(0.8.2, [HAVE_CHECK=true], [HAVE_CHECK=false])
> AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_CHECK, test x$HAVE_CHECK != xfalse)
> 
> AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([src/config.h])
> 
> AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> AC_PROG_CC
> AC_PATH_PROG(XSLTPROC, xsltproc, no)
> if test "$XSLTPROC" = "no"; then
>     AC_MSG_ERROR([XCB requires xsltproc.])
> fi
> 
> # Checks for pkg-config packages
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XCBPROTO, xcb-proto >= 0.9)
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XPROTO, xproto)
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XAU, xau)
> 
> # Find the xcb-proto protocol descriptions
> AC_MSG_CHECKING(XCBPROTO_XCBINCLUDEDIR)
> XCBPROTO_XCBINCLUDEDIR=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=xcbincludedir xcb-proto`
> AC_MSG_RESULT($XCBPROTO_XCBINCLUDEDIR)
> AC_SUBST(XCBPROTO_XCBINCLUDEDIR)
> 
> AC_HEADER_STDC
> AC_SEARCH_LIBS(gethostbyname, nsl)
> AC_SEARCH_LIBS(connect, socket)
> 
> xcbincludedir='${includedir}/X11/XCB'
> AC_SUBST(xcbincludedir)
> 
> AC_ARG_WITH(opt,
> AC_HELP_STRING([--with-opt],       [compile with reasonable optimizations])
> AC_HELP_STRING([--with-opt=FLAGS], [compile with specified FLAGS])
> AC_HELP_STRING([--with-opt=small], [compile for smallest code])
> AC_HELP_STRING([--with-opt=debug], [compile for debugging (default)]),
> [
> 	case "$withval" in
> 	yes)
> 		optflags="-O3"
> 		;;
> 	small)
> 		optflags="-Os -fomit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG"
> 		;;
> 	no|debug)
> 		optflags="-g"
> 		;;
> 	*)
> 		optflags="$withval"
> 		;;
> 	esac
> ])
> AC_CACHE_CHECK([what compiler optimizations to apply], [optflags], 
> [optflags="-g"])
> AC_DEFINE(_XOPEN_SOURCE, 500, [Conform to Single Unix Specification.])
> CDEBUGFLAGS="$optflags -Wall -pedantic -Wpointer-arith \
> 	-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs"
> AC_SUBST(CDEBUGFLAGS)
> 
> AC_OUTPUT([Makefile src/Makefile xcb.pc])
> 
> 
> I loaded my BSD from the latest web distribution (5.4) about a week ago, 
> and manually downloaded and installed the latest GNU automake, autoconf 
> and libtool.
> 
> 
> What can I try next?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dickson
> 
> 
> 
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