Posted by Erik on Apr 29, 2012; 6:27pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Building-JOGL-on-linux-Mint-12-tp3948958p3948971.html

Sometimes it helps to just vent it seems,
I scrolled up and noticed a fatal error, missing the xf86vmode.h file.

sudo apt-get install libxxf86vm-dev

fixed that, and it went ahead and built just fine.

Hope this atleast helps other newbies.