[arch-general] Trouble Building Xorg-Server (Modified PKGBUILD)

[kludge]

Eric Bélanger wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:39 PM, kludge <drkludge at rat-patrol.org> wrote:
>> greets, all!
>>
>> ever since the release of xorg-server 1.5.3, i've been using a modified
>> PKGBUILD to build xorg-server sans hal and dbus.  (not gonna try
>> justifying it again; that'd just lead to yet another flame war.)
>>
>> i've never had a problem until the 1.6.1-1 PKGBUILD, which adds the lines:
>>
>>  libtoolize --force || return 1
>>  aclocal || return 1
>>  autoconf || return 1
>>  automake --add-missing || return 1
>>
>> these added lines produce:
>>
>> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
>> libtoolize: linking file `./ltmain.sh'
>> libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and
>> libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros
>> in-tree.
>> libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
>> hw/dmx/doc/Makefile.am:24: BUILD_LINUXDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
>> hw/dmx/doc/Makefile.am:27: BUILD_PDFDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
>> hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/Makefile.am:24: BUILD_LINUXDOC does not appear in
>> AM_CONDITIONAL
>> hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/Makefile.am:27: BUILD_PDFDOC does not appear in
>> AM_CONDITIONAL
>> ==> ERROR: Build Failed.
>>    Aborting...
>>
>> </ snip>
>>
> 
> Add xorg-util-macros in the makedepends.
> 

that seems to have done the trick.  many thanks.

out of curiosity, why isn't xorg-util-macros in the makedepends of the
stock PKGBUILD?

-kludge