[Raion]

This is kinda a major prerequisite and it appears the 0.9.x series is giving me some trouble because it is asking either a pkgconf .pc for X11 and Render (I've supplied override flags for them) but it can't find the Render include files. How was this handled in the old days? I can probably just build off Diegel's old builds for 0.8.x, but as libXrender hasn't had a lot of updates for a long time it may be worth trying to bring this up to date.

[vishnu]

Presumably you cloned it from Alan Coopersmith's GitHub repository? Looks like the last update was 5 years ago. I'm on the xorg mailing list so I get updates whenever any changes are made to X. Apparently they're happy with libXrender. I'll clone it and give it a try on my Octane2...

[Raion]

Yes, and tried the xorg repository ones. It seems they wanna make it so you have to chew glass to use these.

[vishnu]

I looked at those branches, none of them have been touched in 17 years!

[vishnu]

Couple of idiocies I noticed right away, I generally don't like autoreconf, so I did aclocal, autoheader, automake, autoconf. Their automake file extensions are the modern "am," but the configure script is looking for the ancient "in." So, copy the Makefile.am's to Makefile.in's, rerun configure, everything looks good but nothing builds. So I break down and do autoreconf, now at least it tries to compile a few things but immediately craps out with libtool errors. Who even uses libtool anymore? It's always been crap software. So I'll probably redo the Makefile.am's to get rid of anything related to libtool and go from there. Or maybe I'll just go read the "X Windows Disaster" chapter from the Unix Hater's Manual again...