brucedjones Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 a few days ago i decided to try out the new X.org release, with xcompmgr, so i could check out the drop shadows and transparency but im haveing trouble getting it to compile, i downloaded it from cvs and ran ./autogen.sh and the output is as follows. autoreconf-2.5x: Entering directory `.' autoreconf-2.5x: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf-2.5x: running: aclocal --output=aclocal.m4t autoreconf-2.5x: `aclocal.m4' is unchanged autoreconf-2.5x: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf-2.5x: configure.ac: not using Libtool autoreconf-2.5x: running: /usr/bin/autoconf autoreconf-2.5x: running: /usr/bin/autoheader autoreconf-2.5x: running: automake --add-missing --copy configure.ac: 9: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not `AC_CONFIG_HEADER' configure.ac: 9: required file `./[config.h].in' not found autoreconf-2.5x: automake failed with exit status: 1 i googled for the error but could only come up with a problem with old versions of automake and autoconf, so i updated both (automake-1.9 and autoconf-2.5) but it made no difference. tia, bruce [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 If you want to build something from source do :./configure', 'make' and (as root) 'make install'. Don't use autogen.sh Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucedjones Posted September 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 that doesnt work either, but i assumed you didnt with stuff from cvs because those files dont appear until after youve run autogen. either way i got the same error when it came to the make command, although there was a little more information, which just confuses me even more. is this a problem with the make file?? config.status: creating [config.h] config.status: error: cannot find input file: [config.h].in make: *** [stamp-h] Error 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 Sorry you're right about the ./augen.sh. Look in the configure.ac file and change AC_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h]) to AM_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h]) Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucedjones Posted September 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2004 thanks, i did what you said but i still had the [config.h].in file missing thing, at a guess i copyed a file named config.h and renamed it to [config.h].in, ran make again and it worked fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 13, 2004 Report Share Posted September 13, 2004 Whatever works :D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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