Re: Xinerama fix

[Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>]

Akira TAGOH <tagoh@debian.org> writes:

>>>>>> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:19:42 +0200,
>>>>>> "CM" == Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> CM> Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> writes:
>>> Ok, here is the Xinerama fix for the metacity package (the same fix
>>> should probably be applied to some other packages as well):
>
> CM> This fix shouldn't go in the metacity package but instead in the
> CM> gtk2.0 package. libgtk2.0-dev should depends on xlibs-pic
> CM> (xlibs-static-pic doesn't exist) otherwise all applications using
> CM> xinerama doesn't work.
>
> CM> Also a hack to fix a bug I've filed should be reverted (can't find the
> CM> bug number and the hack).
>
> Why is this dependency required? xlibs-pic contains only
> static libraries. and it is actually linked statically. so
> as you reported before, if .la requires such dependency, a
> bug which should be fixed is that, but not the dependency
> for -dev package.

If the .la file requires xlibs-pic then the package need to depends on
xlibs-pic. Otherwise you can't build any package.

Christian