--- Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:45:39 +0200, David =?iso-8859-2?B?TmXoYXMgKFlldGkp?= said: > > > AFAIK it checks only whether -lXrender makes function > > XRenderQueryExtension available and does not check for any > > Xrender header file at all. > > Bad! Bad configure script! No cookie! :) > > > In other words it doesn't anticipate modular Xorg where > > Xrender is a separate library (like everything else) and > > it's possible to have any combination of the libraries and > > header files installed. For example on Fedora one would get > > to this situation by installing libXrender but not > > libXrender-devel (although this is not possible without > > removal of lots of other Gtk+ dependencies therefore > > configure would not pass there). > > 'rpm -e --nodeps' is a wonderful way to trash dependencies. :) Not the case - MEPIS is not an RPM-based distro in the first place. > > > IMO it should test the presence of header files for each > > extension it needs and I suggest to report it as a bug (if > > it isn't in bugzilla already). > > Yes, it should indeed be checking for at least one unique .h file > for each extension or shared library it has as a pre-req. All too many > people get toasted by some variant of "didn't install libFOO-devel rpm". > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > --Sergei. Applications From Scratch: http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
