Compile Problems.

["Jimmie Potts" <jpotts at arkansas dot net>]

Hi.  I'm new to the cygnus release of Xfree86, and am having problems
compiling it from source.  If I try to compile the sources available from
the ftp site (4.0.1), Most of it doesn't compile, leaving me with a
non-working Xfree86.  I searched the list and found out that this is related
to problems in one of the .dll files needed by other apps, and had been
fixed in later versions, so I went ahead and downloaded the 4.0.2 source
(via CVS).  It barfs with the following errors (yes, this is the entire
world.log.):

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Building Release 6.5 of the X Window System.

I hope you checked the configuration parameters in ./config/cf
to see if you need to pass BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS.

Thu Feb 15 20:05:17  2001

cd ./config/imake && make - --unix -f Makefile.ini BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS=""
CC="gcc" clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jimmie/xc/config/imake'
rm -f ccimake imake.o imake
rm -f *.CKP *.ln *.BAK *.bak *.o core errs ,* *~ *.a tags TAGS make.log \#*
rm -f -r Makefile.proto Makefile Makefile.dep bootstrap
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jimmie/xc/config/imake'
make - --unix Makefile.boot
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jimmie/xc'
cd ./config/imake && make - --unix -w -f Makefile.ini BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS=""
CC="gcc"
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jimmie/xc/config/imake'
making imake with BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS= in config/imake
gcc -c  -O -I../../include -I../../imports/x11/include/X11 `./ccimake`
imake.c
gcc -o imake  -O -I../../include -I../../imports/x11/include/X11 imake.o
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jimmie/xc/config/imake'
rm -f ./config/makedepend/Makefile.proto
./config/imake/imake -I./config/cf  -s ./config/makedepend/Makefile.proto -f
./config/makedepend/Imakefile -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURDIR=./config/makedepend
In file included from config/cf/Imake.tmpl:94,
                 from Imakefile.c:8:
config/cf/cygwin.cf:43: warning: `HasGcc' redefined
Imakefile.c:2: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
config/cf/cygwin.cf:44: warning: `HasGcc2' redefined
Imakefile.c:3: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from config/cf/Imake.tmpl:1766,
                 from Imakefile.c:8:
/tmp/IIf.615477:87: unterminated `#ifdef' conditional
./config/imake/imake: Exit code 1.
  Stop.
make[1]: *** [config/makedepend/Makefile.proto] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jimmie/xc'
make: *** [World] Error 2
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I checked the mailing list again to see if there has been a fix made for
this, and actually found one (I forget what message...).  So I tried the 2
patches it contained:  one for cygwin.cf, and one for imake.c.  The patch
for cygwin.cf worked, but the one for imake.c didn't.  Hmmm...So I decided
to give it one last shot and got the latest CVS code (using cvs update -A
xc).  Same result as 4.0.2...

Any ideas about what's going on here?  I'm running WinME on a P2-300 w/128
megs of ram, and an ATI Rage XC video card with the latest drivers.

James Potts
(webmaster@verge-net.com)