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. :) > 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".
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