xorg build problems: dtrace script

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

You can get the build to work by completely disabling the use of dtrace
with --without-detrace passed to ./configure, iirc.  

I have noticed that this is only necessary on FreeBSD/amd64.  It works
fine with FreeBSD/i386.

Adam

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:02:53 -0400
Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org> wrote:

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> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > Chuck Robey wrote:
> >> I've never seen this type of thing before.  Is it a precompiler of
> >> some sort? It's getting an error, looks like it's tripping over a
> >> common FreeBSD type, a uid_t.  I know how I'd handle this with a C
> >> file, I'd find out where it was defined, see if it was already
> >> included but had define masking problems, or if it just plain
> >> wasn't included before, and then add an include for it, but I
> >> don't know what the heck this thing is ... code is /usr/lib??
> >> that's wacky ...
> >>
> >> Anyhow, here's the last part of the error listing (from
> >> xserver,dix).  If you don't recognize the error, but know
> >> something about the .d files, you could tell me, then I could
> >> pester the FreeBSD folks about it:
> >>
> >> ranlib .libs/libdix.a
> >> creating libdix.la
> >> (cd .libs && rm -f libdix.la && ln -s ../libdix.la libdix.la)
> >> /usr/sbin/dtrace -G -C -o dtrace-dix.o
> >> -s ../dix/Xserver.d .libs/*.o dtrace: failed to compile
> >> script ../dix/Xserver.d: "/usr/lib/dtrace/psinfo.d", line 37:
> >> syntax error near "uid_t"
> > 
> > In that step, the dtrace program is using the information in the
> > Xserver.d text file to post-process the binaries to insert the
> > dtrace probe points.    I don't know if anyone has tried building
> > on FreeBSD with the dtrace probes since those were just integrated
> > to the FreeBSD kernel, and would have to check with the guys who
> > did the dtrace port to FreeBSD to see if there's anything different
> > we need to do there.   (I know MacOS X needs changes to the dtrace
> > routines, but I've never gotten to a Leopard machine to fix them,
> > and the Apple guys working on X have had a lot of higher priority
> > things to fix first.)
> > 
> 
> Fine, that's enough info for me to make the rest of the way on my own.
> Appreciate it.
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