From: Thomas Devoogdt <thomas@devoogdt.com>
To: buildroot@buildroot.org
Cc: Thomas Devoogdt <thomas.devoogdt@barco.com>
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/x11r7/xserver_xorg-server: fix automake-1.18 command not found
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:54:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260820115408.3943622-1-thomas.devoogdt@barco.com> (raw)
The tarball published on
https://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/xserver/ ships a
pre-generated build system produced with automake 1.18. Buildroot only
provides automake 1.16, so the shipped Makefile.in files are unusable and
the build fails when they are regenerated:
```
cd ../../../.. && /bin/bash /home/thomas/buildroot/output/build/xserver_xorg-server-21.1.23/missing automake-1.18 --foreign hw/xfree86/drivers/modesetting/Makefile
/home/thomas/buildroot/output/build/xserver_xorg-server-21.1.23/missing: line 85: automake-1.18: command not found
WARNING: 'automake-1.18' is missing on your system.
```
Enable AUTORECONF so the build system is regenerated with the automake
version available in Buildroot.
Regenerating the build system additionally requires the font-util
autoconf macros, hence the extra dependency:
```
configure.ac:52: error: must install font-util 1.1 or later before running autoconf/autogen
```
This commit can be reverted once Buildroot bumps automake to >= 1.18.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Devoogdt <thomas.devoogdt@barco.com>
---
package/x11r7/xserver_xorg-server/xserver_xorg-server.mk | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/package/x11r7/xserver_xorg-server/xserver_xorg-server.mk b/package/x11r7/xserver_xorg-server/xserver_xorg-server.mk
index cecbb821aea..efb849a9b02 100644
--- a/package/x11r7/xserver_xorg-server/xserver_xorg-server.mk
+++ b/package/x11r7/xserver_xorg-server/xserver_xorg-server.mk
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ XSERVER_XORG_SERVER_DEPENDENCIES = \
mcookie \
host-pkgconf
+# automake-1.18: command not found, font-util needed for autoconf/autogen
+XSERVER_XORG_SERVER_AUTORECONF = YES
+XSERVER_XORG_SERVER_DEPENDENCIES += xfont_font-util
+
# We force -O2 regardless of the optimization level chosen by the
# user, as the X.org server is known to trigger some compiler bugs at
# -Os on several architectures.
--
2.43.0
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