Problems while compiling xorg on Ubuntu

[Felix Miata]

On 2014-03-23 09:23 (GMT-0700) Alan Coopersmith composed:

> On 03/22/14 04:45 PM, Felix Miata wrote:

>> When exactly was that change made? What I have:

>> * Sun Apr 07 2013 sndirsch at suse.com
>> - u_Fixed-build-with-INPUT_API-19.patch
>>    * Added dummy parameters to miPointerSetPosition(...) to fix
>>      build with INPUT_API >= 19.

> So SuSE patched their package to solve it and hasn't pushed the patch back
> upstream.

Was it actually necessary? Fedora works too:
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.0.log-g5eas-z7xg20SiS-f21-1600x1200x120

I don't recognize anything similar to what SuSE did done by Fedora:

* Mon Jan 13 2014 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> - 0.10.7-15
- 1.15 ABI rebuild

* Tue Dec 17 2013 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> - 0.10.7-14
- 1.15RC4 ABI rebuild

* Fri Nov 22 2013 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> 0.10.7-13
- Fix format security warnings

* Wed Nov 20 2013 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> - 0.10.7-12
- 1.15RC2 ABI rebuild

* Wed Nov 06 2013 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> - 0.10.7-11
- 1.15RC1 ABI rebuild

* Fri Oct 25 2013 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> - 0.10.7-10
- ABI rebuild

* Sun Aug 04 2013 Fedora Release Engineering 
<rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.10.7-9
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild

* Thu Mar 07 2013 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 0.10.7-8
- autoreconf for aarch64

* Thu Mar 07 2013 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> - 0.10.7-7
- require xorg-x11-server-devel, not -sdk

* Thu Mar 07 2013 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> - 0.10.7-6
- ABI rebuild

* Fri Feb 15 2013 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> - 0.10.7-5
- ABI rebuild

* Fri Feb 15 2013 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> - 0.10.7-4
- ABI rebuild

* Thu Jan 10 2013 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> - 0.10.7-3
- ABI rebuild

* Sun Jul 22 2012 Fedora Release Engineering 
<rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.10.7-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Jul 18 2012 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 0.10.7-1
- sis 0.10.7

* Fri Apr 27 2012 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 0.10.4-1
- sis 0.10.4

* Thu Apr 05 2012 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> - 0.10.3-17
- RHEL arch exclude updates

* Sat Feb 11 2012 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> - 0.10.3-16
- ABI rebuild

* Fri Feb 10 2012 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> - 0.10.3-15
- ABI rebuild

* Tue Jan 24 2012 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> - 0.10.3-14
- ABI rebuild

* Wed Jan 04 2012 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> 0.10.3-13
- Sync with latest git again
- Add a hack to replace the now-removed miPointerAbsoluteCursor
- Add a hack to allow build without DRI
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