Whence be libXevie tarball?

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Pat Kane <pekane52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
>  > Xevie is pretty much deprecated.  What are you using it for?
>
> I am trying to build the X server from tarballs[1] and I get this error msg:
>
>   Building xserver module component xorg-server...
>   configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
>   appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
>   appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
>   configure: error: Package requirements (randrproto >= 1.2 renderproto
>   fixesproto >= 4.0 damageproto >= 1.1 xcmiscproto xextproto
>   xproto >= 7.0.9 xtrans scrnsaverproto >= 1.1 bigreqsproto
>   resourceproto fontsproto inputproto >= 1.4.4 kbproto >= 1.0.3 videoproto
>   compositeproto >= 0.4 resourceproto xineramaproto evieproto xkbfile xfont
>   xau fontenc pixman-1 >= 0.9.5 xdmcp) were not met:
>
>   Package evieproto was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>   Perhaps you should add the directory containing `evieproto.pc'
>   to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>   No package 'evieproto' found
>
> The only reason I need it is to avoid that error message.  Is there
> a way to tell X server not to need evieproto?

I think --disable-xevie should do it. Maybe this should be the default
since XEvIE is on the way out as Daniel says.

--
Dan