Compiling X.org 7.1 under Slackware

R.L. Horn lists at eastcheap.org
Mon Oct 16 20:04:14 PDT 2006


On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Alberto Simões wrote:

> I am using Slackware and trying to compile by hand X.org. I know I am
> crazy, but I like it. The problem is that sometimes things doesn't
> work as expected. At the moment I have this problem:
>
> In file included from xf86drm.c:74:
> ../../../../hw/xfree86/os-support/xf86drm.h:547: error: expected
> declaration specifiers or '...' before 'drm_drawable_info_type_t'
> xf86drm.c:1393: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before
> 'drm_drawable_info_type_t'

> Now, I can't find any definition of drm_drawable_info_type_t anywhere
> in the X.org tree or in libdrm (2.0.2 is the one I have installed).

Are you sure you don't have some old DRM headers floating around somewhere 
(say, in /usr/X11R[67]/include)?  These X11 directories really don't 
belong in the default include and link paths, but the distributors do 
insist on setting things up that way sometimes.


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