Compiling 4.7.0 from scratch - comments in xf86site.def are misleading.

[Sam Sexton <Sam.Sexton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Solaris 8, I had a problem compiling dmxinit.o:

make[6]: Entering directory `/home/sam.sexton/Xvfb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/dmx'
rm -f dmxinit.o
/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -c -O -Xa -v   -I. -I../../../../programs/Xserver/include -I../../../../programs/Xserver/os 
 -I../../../../programs/Xserver/mi  -I../../../../programs/Xserver/fb -I../../../../programs/Xserver/miext/shadow  
 -I../../../../programs/Xserver/render -I../../../../programs/Xserver/Xext  -I../../../../exports/include -I/usr/X11R6/include   
 -Dsun -DSVR4 -D__EXTENSIONS__ -Dsparc -D__sparc__ -DSHAPE -DXINPUT -DXKB -DLBX -DXAPPGROUP -DXCSECURITY -DXSYNC  -DDPMSExtension 
 -DBIGREQS  -DRENDER -DRANDR      -DNDEBUG   -DINCLUDE_ALLOCA_H  -UXFree86Server     -DDDXOSINIT -DMITSHM -DMITMISC -DXTEST 
 -DXTRAP -DXCMISC -DXRECORD -DTOGCUP    -DDBE -DEVI     -DFONTCACHE -DDMXEXT -UDBE -UNEED_DBE_BUF_BITS -UNEED_DBE_BUF_VALIDATE 
 -UNEED_DBE_BUF_REVALIDATE -UMITSHM -URANDR -UXPRINT -UMULTIBUFFER -UXV -UXVMC -UXTESTEXT1 -UXF86VIDMODE -UXF86MISC -UXFreeXDGA 
 -UGLXEXT -UXF86DRI -UTOGCUP -UMITMISC -USCREENSAVER -UFONTCACHE -UXFree86LOADER  -DVENDOR_STRING=\""DMX Project"\" 
 -DVENDOR_RELEASE="((1) * 100000000) + ((3) * 1000000) + ((2006-2000) * 10000) + ((2) * 100) + ((20) * 1)" -DOSNAME='"SunOS 5.8 
 Generic_117350-08 sun4u"' -DOSVENDOR='""'   dmxinit.c
"../../../../programs/Xserver/Xext/panoramiX.h", line 32: cannot find include file: <X11/extensions/panoramiXext.h>
"dmxinit.c", line 139: warning: implicit function declaration: XmuSnprintf
cc: acomp failed for dmxinit.c

The file is not included in the distribution files, but I don't (I hope!) need dmx, so I had to find out how to disable it. The only likely place was in xf86site.def, which had this:

/*
 * To enable building Xdmx, uncomment this.
 *
#define XdmxServer    YES
 */

This to my eyes indicates that it's disabled by default, but I decided not to put too much trust in that, so uncommented the define statement and set it to NO. 

That did the trick, but I think the config file should be changed to make this clear.

/Sam

Sam Sexton
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