Re: Error on compile - /gossip-idle.c:54: undefined reference to `XScreenSaverAllocInfo'

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Adam,

The packages to build the basic GNOME desktop are contained in desktop
and platform.  The other major directories, except bootstrap, contain
additional applications to supplement the GNOME desktop. 

To avoid building a particular package, you can either remove it from
the directory or rename it by prefixing the the with a '.', i.e.,

          totem => .totem

I am surprised that a package containing the xscreensaver extensions is
not available for your distro.


-Joseph

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On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 09:38 +0100, Adam Cripps wrote:
> On 9/9/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <joseph_sacco comcast net> wrote:
> > Adam,
> >
> > A good guess would be that a "devel" package for X11 needs to be
> > installed from your distro.
> >
> > On my system, an FC4 clone,  XScreenSaverAllocInfo is defined in
> >
> >         /usr/include/X11/extensions/xscrnsaver.h
> >
> > which is provided by
> >
> >     xorg-x11-devel
> >
> >
> > -Joseph
> 
> Joseph,
> 
> Thaks for your reply. Unfortunately, I think the problem is caused by
> a bug in a debian package xlibs-dev which is unavailable at the
> moment. There are lots of bugs filed for this pacakge [1] for all the
> different packages that depend on it.
> 
> I've tried downloading the script referenced at [2], which seemed to
> run OK, but didn't make any different to the compile problem. Another
> solution is to hardcode the references to the libraries, but that is
> the hardway[TM].
> 
> Perhaps one way forward is to delete Fifth-toe from my compile? How
> would I go about that? (I'm not even sure what Fifth-toe is - I've
> never used it before.)
> 
> Another, less desirable at the moment, but long term solution is to
> install Ubuntu ;-)
> 
> TIA
> Adam
> 
> Adam
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport cgi?usertag=debian-release lists debian org:transition-xlibs-dev&repeatmerged=no
> [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DependsXlibsDev
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