Well the first time i tried to build i found i needed bison so i got that and installed, then i learned i needed m4 and flex so I got both of those installed. But when I do make world I get this error in the log.

<stdout>: In function `yylex':
<stdout>:1199: error: `yy_prev_more_offset' undeclared (first use in this function)
<stdout>:1199: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
<stdout>:1199: error: for each function it appears in.)
lexer.l:349: warning: long unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 3)
lexer.l:358: warning: long unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 3)
lexer.l: At top level:
<stdout>:2988: warning: 'yy_flex_strlen' defined but not used
make[4]: *** [lexer.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ness/xc/config/pswrap'
make[3]: *** [../../config/pswrap/pswrap] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ness/xc/lib/dps'
make[2]: *** [includes] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ness/xc/lib'
make[1]: *** [includes] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ness/xc'
make: *** [World] Error 2

Any help?

i think this is a problem with flex (possibly wrong version)
for me
yy_prev_more_offset
is the last definition in
/usr/include/FlexLexer.h
from Flex-2.5.31

i also sometimes get this kind of stuff i can't quite explain or figure out from the compiler
as some kind of "this compiler version" versus the rest of the world thing

or sometimes developers will do something stupid like leave an old header to an externel lib in the source tree but you wouldn't think xorg would do that

Well I got that problem fixed by getting a later release of flex. Alas, a new problem arose just as quickly. Now theres numerous compile errors on xmlconfig. I went and downloaded the source but it isnt easy to compile (in the readme it simply says "if you can't compile this you shouldn't be using it). Argh, maybe I'll just build xorg ignoring errors and see what happens. If anyone has instructions on updating/installing xmlconfig I would appreciate it. I'm getting close to getting xorg to compile just have a few hurdles. It's funny because at the beginning of the week I was getting used to using a shell and now I'm compiling apps

Well got xmlconfig taken care of, time to fix fontconfig. I swear xorg is gonna compile eventually!!

Well, since you fixed the xmlconfig.o error, would you mind posting a fix for that? I'm trying to make World on the 6.8.2 Xorg version, but after installing flex and bison, i stumbled on an error with xmlconfig.o ... which I have no clue as to what to do with...and while you're at it, just in case you fixed the fontconfig, and I stumble on that too, could you post that too?