On a new Debian 8 system which I simply named "xorg" I see the following :
xorg$ cat /etc/debian_version 8.2 xorg$ pwd /home/dclarke xorg$ xorg$ cd $HOME xorg$ rm -rf xorg/ xorg$ rm -rf /opt/xorg/* xorg$ mkdir -p xorg/util xorg$ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/util/modular xorg/util/modular Cloning into 'xorg/util/modular'... remote: Counting objects: 2526, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1395/1395), done. remote: Total 2526 (delta 1610), reused 1763 (delta 1125) Receiving objects: 100% (2526/2526), 1.09 MiB | 587.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (1610/1610), done. Checking connectivity... done. xorg$ cd $HOME/xorg xorg$ CONFFLAGS=\-\-with\-udev\-rules\-dir\=/opt/xorg/udev xorg$ export CONFFLAGS xorg$ cp -p util/modular/build.sh util/modular/build.sh_backup xorg$ cp -p $HOME/build_new_util_modular_build.sh util/modular/build.sh xorg$ xorg$ xorg$ date -u ; ./util/modular/build.sh --clone --autoresume built.modules /opt/xorg Wed Oct 14 08:48:27 UTC 2015 Building to run Linux / x86_64 () Wed Oct 14 04:48:27 EDT 2015 ====================================================================== == Processing: "util/macros" == configuration options: --with-udev-rules-dir=/opt/xorg/udev Cloning into 'util/macros'... remote: Counting objects: 633, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (472/472), done. remote: Total 633 (delta 386), reused 262 (delta 161) Receiving objects: 100% (633/633), 145.57 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (386/386), done. Checking connectivity... done. autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I /opt/xorg/share/aclocal autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Autoheader autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force configure.ac:30: installing './install-sh' configure.ac:30: installing './missing' autoreconf: Leaving directory `.' configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-udev-rules-dir checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking that generated files are newer than configure... done configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating xorg-macros.pc config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating xorg-macros.m4 configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-udev-rules-dir make: Nothing to be done for 'all'. make[1]: Entering directory '/home/dclarke/xorg/util/macros' make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'. /bin/mkdir -p '/opt/xorg/share/aclocal' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 xorg-macros.m4 '/opt/xorg/share/aclocal' /bin/mkdir -p '/opt/xorg/share/util-macros' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 INSTALL '/opt/xorg/share/util-macros' /bin/mkdir -p '/opt/xorg/share/pkgconfig' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 xorg-macros.pc '/opt/xorg/share/pkgconfig' make install-data-hook make[2]: Entering directory '/home/dclarke/xorg/util/macros' rm -f /opt/xorg/share/aclocal/xorgversion.m4 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/dclarke/xorg/util/macros' make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/dclarke/xorg/util/macros' ====================================================================== == Processing: "font/util" == configuration options: --with-udev-rules-dir=/opt/xorg/udev Cloning into 'font/util'... remote: Counting objects: 301, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (177/177), done. remote: Total 301 (delta 187), reused 196 (delta 123) Receiving objects: 100% (301/301), 83.10 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (187/187), done. Checking connectivity... done. autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext . . . ====================================================================== == Processing: "doc/xorg-docs" == configuration options: --with-udev-rules-dir=/opt/xorg/udev Cloning into 'doc/xorg-docs'... remote: Counting objects: 3709, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1357/1357), done. remote: Total 3709 (delta 2213), reused 3702 (delta 2210) Receiving objects: 100% (3709/3709), 15.21 MiB | 3.30 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (2213/2213), done. Checking connectivity... done. autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I /opt/xorg/share/aclocal configure.ac:38: warning: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd /opt/xorg/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4:1822: XORG_INSTALL is expanded from... /opt/xorg/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4:1802: XORG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS is expanded from... configure.ac:38: the top level autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing configure.ac:38: warning: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd aclocal.m4:2971: XORG_INSTALL is expanded from... aclocal.m4:2951: XORG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS is expanded from... configure.ac:38: the top level autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf configure.ac:38: warning: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd aclocal.m4:2971: XORG_INSTALL is expanded from... aclocal.m4:2951: XORG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS is expanded from... configure.ac:38: the top level configure:11041: error: possibly undefined macro: m4_ifval If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. configure:11045: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_FILE autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 build.sh: "autogen.sh" failed on doc/xorg-docs build.sh: error processing: "doc/xorg-docs" xorg$ Not sure what is needed here but the build stalls at this point. Any hints ? Dennis _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s