Xserver compile issues (and some more things)

[David Reveman]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 09:15 +0100, Christian Parpart wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to get a bit deeper into the Xserver than just looking 
> onto it's page, however, while (still) trying to compile the sources 
> completely (meanwhile: by creating some distribution build files 
> for it) I constantly run into errors:
> 
> First, as already mentioned before in the list, it didn't find 
> internal/glcore.h. I fixed that be taking the files from Xorg's 
> mesa (as told) and hard copied them into my /opt/Xserver/include/GL.
> 
> It shall be added a configure.ac-level check on the existence of these 
> include files or be distributed with the Xserver itself. Though, if not
> found, ./configure shall abort with an error then.
> 
> The next problem I ran in, was, that GL_FOG_COORD_FOO seems not to be 
> the right define as they're seem to be GL_FOG_COORDINATE_FOO. 
> This part GL/glx/singlesize.c. Fix available at [1].
> 
> Another fix (I maybe noted earlier) for render.c is available at [2].
> 
> Actually, I run into multiple missing headers in GL/mesa because I 
> didn't checkout the new Mesa module from CVS. I got one from rsync.
> 
> configure.ac shall reall check the validity on the --with-mesa=DIR 
> contents. Even if not specified (as it has a default path). It shall
> also abort here on error.
> 
> Mesa/src/mesa/glapi/glthread.h:197 does include "Xthreads.h". It shall be
> <X11/Xthreads.h> AFAIK. A workaround is to set explicitely C[XX]FLAGS to
> "-I$prefix/include/X11" wich rather looks ugly than eye-candy.
> 
> Winhelp.c seems to be in Xorg's CVS repository but is not in Xserver's 
> xlibs/Xdmcp. Are there any reasons for this?
> 
> DEC_XTRAPInit cannot be resolved in when building Xserver 
> as it is used when --enable-xtrap is specified.
> 
> Xorg (xc) knows about this symbol as it is defined in 
>     xc/programs/Xserver/XTrap/xtrapdi.c
> 
> I finally had to --disable-xglserver, --disable-xglxserver and 
> --disable-glx (just any sort of GL) because there have been errors I 
> couldn't fix and I can't remember now (I've a too long uptime ;)

I case you didn't know, you don't have to enable glx '--enable-glx' to
build Xgl. I don't know about the glx errors you've been getting but if
you want to build Xgl, you should probably not enable glx as there's no
glx support in Xgl yet anyway.

-David