build patched dummy drivers for Debian / Ubuntu

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Issue migrated from trac ticket # 1215

component: platforms | priority: major | resolution: fixed | keywords: debian ubuntu dummy

2016-06-01 07:31:23: antoine created the issue

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Follow up from #1202#comment:26, it would be nice if Debian and Ubuntu servers had correct DPI settings in all cases.

See [Xdummy] and [DPI](../wiki/Xdummy] and [../wiki/DPI) and [Xdummy] and [DPI](../wiki/Xdummy] and [../wiki/DPI)

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2016-07-12 17:51:51: antoine commented

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Milestone renamed

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2016-08-21 10:55:50: antoine commented

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Milestone renamed

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2016-12-17 17:36:23: antoine uploaded file debian-dummy.patch (4.5 KiB)

work in progress - builds on stretch and yakkety, without any patches

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2016-12-17 23:05:37: antoine changed status from new to closed

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2016-12-17 23:05:37: antoine set resolution to fixed

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2016-12-17 23:05:37: antoine commented

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Done in r14562 with dummy version 0.3.8.
This may need further updates if progress is made on #56.

The beta area has dummy packages for Debian Stretch, Ubuntu Xenial and Ubuntu Yakkety.

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2016-12-22 11:39:05: antoine commented

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Packaging had issues, see #1384

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2016-12-23 05:25:11: antoine commented

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Added the fix-pointer-limits patch (see #349) in r14584.

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2016-12-23 05:28:21: antoine edited the issue description

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2017-03-11 07:29:39: antoine commented

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Just noticed that Debian Wheezy and Jessie have DPI issues with the 1.0 branch because of this ticket: the dummy driver fails to build on those older distros.
Specifically since this commit: r15013. (15014 for v1.0.x branch: 1.0.2)

To build on Debian Wheezy and Jessie, we need to workaround this build error:

/xserver-xorg-video-dummy/missing: line 81: automake-1.15: command not found

None of the easy / hackish workarounds applied, so I resorted to installing automake-1.15 from source using this script then symlinked it into /usr/bin so the build finds it:

ln -sf /usr/local/bin/automake-1.15 /usr/bin/

This can all be removed after we've built the dummy packages.