Re: possible bug in 'configure' of gtk+-2.8.20

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- Valdis Kletnieks vt edu 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".
> 
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--Sergei.

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