Greetings all. I hope to attain some help from some of you gurus. I have been pounding away at this problem for 9 months now, and would REALLY like to figure it out before 4.3 hits the servers.
Before I explain, I'll lay down that this problem has reproduced itself on 3 different machines (all *86 arch), on gcc-2.95.3 and 3.2, on several different builds of Linux from Scratch which are rock solid, FHS and LSB compliant, and which build everything else without a hickup. I am a co-developer on the Linux from Scratch via RPM distro, so my focus here is to get X built from a spec file. Also, the error is reproduced whether building by hand or from a spec file, and I've gone from no host.def file, to using just HaveZlib YES and HaveNcurses YES, to switching all of the different flags on and off (yes, it's been a LOT of builds). For the sake of probability, let's rule out hardware or a flaky build environment causing my problem. Also, it has been attempted with and without optimization in all the different scenerio. Here is the output I have seen so many times: make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/build/xc/lib/GL/GL' make[4]: *** No rule to make target `../../../lib/GL/glx/?*.o', needed by `libGL.a'. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/build/xc/lib/GL/GL' make[3]: *** [install] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/build/xc/lib/GL' make[2]: *** [install] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/build/xc/lib' make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/build/xc' make: *** [install] Error 2 The only flag that makes any difference is BuildFonts NO. This works, everything builds correctly, but then I'm left rerunning the install to build fonts (not a good solution for a spec file). If I cd to xc/lib/GL/GL and type make, I get the same output. But if I cd to xc/lib/GL/glx and do make, it builds, and I am then able to go back to xc/lib/GL/GL and hit make with success. This leads itself to appear as a build order problem, but I am not familiar enough with Imake to track it. Another tidbit is that, shortly after the fonts build, Makefile.bak is created in xc/lib/GL/glx, which means something in the build is updating the makefile. I have tried building without patches, with just the bad-extern patch, with just the 4.2.1 patch, and different combinations of a whole pile of patches I've found, but none of them solve this. I've run across several other folks having this problem on Google, but never uncovered a solution. My hope here is not only to solve my problem but hopefully fix something in the 4.3 release so that no one has to encounter this again. Thanks so much for any help you may be able to give. Jason __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
