[Xcb] Status of XCB and howto begin

[Josh Triplett]

Alexander Botero wrote:
> 1) Is this (xcb) project vivid and active?

Yes.

> 2) I would like to test your xcb (xlib replacement), but how to start?
> Unfortunately, I do not fully understand howto install the various parts.
> 
> I have read the
> http://xcb.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Those directions are slightly out of date in one minor respect, namely
that they still suggest fetching packages from the "xlibs" repository
rather than the main "xorg" repository.  That should still work, it just
won't get you the most up to date versions of Xproto and Xau.

> and have installed all
> pkgconfig 0.15.0,  automake 1.7,  autoconf 2.50,  libtool 1.5.6,  xsltproc,
> gperf 3.0.1
> 
> And done:
> 
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs at cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xlibs login
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs at cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xlibs co  Xproto
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs at cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xlibs co  Xau
> 
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs at cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xcb co xcb-proto
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs at cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xcb co xcb
> 
> Having now:
> drwxr-xr-x   6 alex alex 4096 2006-02-03 19:21 Xau
> drwxr-xr-x   8 alex alex 4096 2006-02-03 19:46 xcb
> drwxr-xr-x   7 alex alex 4096 2006-02-03 19:21 xcb-proto
> drwxr-xr-x   4 alex alex 4096 2006-02-03 19:11 Xproto
> 
> And compiled xcb which reported errors:
> 
> $ cd xcb
> $ ~/code/X11/xcb$
> $~/code/X11/xcb$ ./autogen.sh
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal  --output=aclocal.m4t
> aclocal: configure.ac: 14: macro `AM_PATH_CHECK' not found in library
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> ---------------------------------

You need the testing tool "check".

> My distro is Ubuntu 5.10 (X86 32 bit)

apt-get install check :)

Since you're running breezy, you'll need to fetch it from the "universe"
repository, so either add that repository to sources.list or fetch the
appropriate package from packages.ubuntu.com/check .  In Ubuntu's
current unstable version, dapper, the package appears to be available
without needing "universe".

- Josh Triplett
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