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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] xfree86-devel build problem
  • Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:02:48 +0100

On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:15:42PM +0100, Mads Laursen wrote:
> Yesterday I tried to update to the latest version of the xfree86-devel
> spell (4.3.99.901), but it failed. It appears to attempt building XvMC
> for i810, which fails since DRI/DRM is not buildt into my kernel.
>
> My setup is 2.6.0-test9-mm2, with everything at the level of the test
> grimoire as of yesterday (xfree was the last update). Hardware is a
> Dell Inspiron 8200 with GeForce4 GO, NVIDIA_driver, Pentium 4.
>
> I've made one small alteration:
>
> sedit s"/_WIDE_CHARS /_WIDE_CHARS -DOPT_256_COLORS /"
> programs/xterm/Imakefile
>
> to the BUILD file to enable 256-color xterms. I'm building again
> without it, but I'd be very surprised if it makes any difference.
>
> I'm attaching the tail end of the xfree compile log and my host.def. If
> more info is needed, I have a copy of the complete compile log.
>
> /dossen

XFree is probably another spell that doesn't work with 2.6 kernel
headers. Why it tries to compile drm although the option is turned off
is beyond me, but the failure looks like a kernel header problem.

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