Re: Today's the day...
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 14:22, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:10:03PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >
> > checking for XRRSetScreenConfigAndRate in -lXrandr... no
> > configure: error: "Suitable Xrandr extension library not found - you
> > need at least X 4.3"
>
> Which is as it seemed to me.
>
> > But it doesn't seem to actually use XRRSetScreenConfigAndRate ...
>
> I think it is just checking for one of the presence of RandR in the
> library. It uses XRRSetScreenConfig and others though.
After some more investigation, it looks like libXrandr broke source
compatibility between 4.2 and 4.3 (XRRSetScreenConfig dropped a
parameter), nasty. It might be possible to make it build against both
versions, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
> > Anyway, while we're at it, you can cut down the build dependencies to
> >
> > Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 4.0.0), libgnomeui-dev,
> > libpanel-applet2-dev, libxrender-dev, xlibs-dev (>> 4.3.0)
>
> Ok, will do.
I failed to mention that libxrender-dev was missing before.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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