Re: SOXXFREE86MISCREV

[Marc Aurele La France <tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:

> 	When I try to build XFree86 4.6 under Darwin 8.8.0 (PowerPC G4), I 
> get the following sequence of messages:

> rm -f libXxf86misc..dylib
> mv -f libXxf86misc..dylib~ libXxf86misc..dylib
> mv: rename libXxf86misc..dylib~ to libXxf86misc..dylib: No such file or 
> directory
> make[4]: *** [libXxf86misc..dylib] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [World] Error 2
> make: *** [World] Error 2

> Researching as best I could, the libXxf86misc..dylib is generated because 
> SOXXF86MISCREV is not defined in makefile and I believe it is this generation 
> that is causing the problem.  I tried looking for where the definition would 
> be generated and failed.  Looking backward in the  output, I found the 
> following related message that did not fail the build attempt:

> rm -f libXxf86misc..dylib~
> expr: syntax error

> The syntax error also appears in the xmakefile distclean.  I suspect that an 
> unprintable character is being inserted in the file name generation at line 
> 955 in the xfr68misc makefile:

> 	@set +e; MAJREV=`expr $(SOXXF86MISCREV) : '\([0-9]*\)'`; set -e; \

> but, cannot verify because I cannot determine how the makefile is generated 
> at makefiles time.

#define'ing BuildXFree86ConfigTools to NO in your xc/config/cf/host.def 
should work around this problem.  Please let me know if that is so.

Thanks.

Marc.

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