On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 21:37 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Joe Sprankle <jspran...@awlship.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Brand new to this. > > I'm attempting to learn to build kdrive and not off to a good start. > > Configure.ac says to run autoconf to create configure script. > > I'm receiving the following error: > > > > f...@foo:~/Desktop/xorg-server-1.6.1.901$ autoconf > > configure.ac:31: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE > > If this token and others are legitimate, please use > > m4_pattern_allow. > > See the Autoconf documentation. >
> Sounds like you don't have automake installed. automake --version automake (GNU automake) 1.10.2 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Tom Tromey <tro...@redhat.com> and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <a...@gnu.org>. > You'll need autoconf, autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.63 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. > automake and libtool to work with the git sources. libtool --version ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6 Written by Gordon Matzigkeit <g...@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, 1996 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > Additionally, > you'll need any other X modules that the server depends on. > > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Development/git Looks like I ned to start on this page, ever feel like you've bitten off more than you can chew? > > It's also very probably Ubuntu has kdrive. Look for Xephyr. There is a package for Xephyr, and xfbdev. My issue is I need to this to work with a touchscreen. I'm trying to build an understanding of the process of building/tweaking kdrive. I'm normally a RTFM kind of person, I'm having a hard time finding documentation to read, Any suggestions? Thanks! > -- > Dan > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg