Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 03:34 -0500, Build System wrote:
New package gnome-python2-desktop
autoconf-2.59-6
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* Mon Feb 06 2006 Karsten Hopp <karsten@xxxxxxxxx> 2.59-6
- check for Xlib.h instead of Intrinsic.h to find X11 headers
(#176379)
Not necessarily a good idea, because this renders FC generated configure
scripts unnecessarily incompatible to FSF autoconf generated ones.
Furthermore, the whole idea of checking for "X11 headers" is arguable,
because the concept of common directories for "X11-includes/libraries"
doesn't apply anymore with modular X anymore. Instead, we now have a
"set of X11 devel packages", which just "happen to be installed to a
common prefix".
I would eagerly plea to revert this change.
I'd go one step further, and consider the change to be a bug. All
of the X libraries install pkgconfig *.pc files in X11R7.0 as a
standard. Various other things like the SDK, font utils, etc.
also install pkgconfig files.
All packages in the distribution which need to know where the X
headers are installed, or need to know anything that is supplied
via the pkgconfig files, should use pkg-config to find it.
If a package wishes to retain build time compatibility with
X11R6 et al. it could use fallbacks if the pkg-config files
aren't present, however from here on out, using pkgconfig
is the very highly recommended way to detect the X libraries
and other bits and pieces.
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Mike A. Harris * Open Source Advocate * http://mharris.ca
Proud Canadian.
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