Bug#352619: FTBFS: undefined reference to `XF86VidModeQueryVersion'

[Christopher Martin <chrsmrtn@debian.org>]

On Sunday 12 February 2006 19:24, Paul Brook wrote:
> Package: kpovmodeler
> Version: 4:3.5.1-2
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch
> Justification: no longer builds from source
>
>
> Build fails on i386 with
>
> g++ -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE
> -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith
> -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -g -Wall -O2 -Wformat-security
> -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions
> -fno-check-new -fno-common -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST
> -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -o .libs/kpovmodeler
> main.o  -L/usr/lib -L/usr/share/qt3/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> ./.libs/libkpovmodeler.so -lm
> ./.libs/libkpovmodeler.so: undefined reference to
> `XF86VidModeQueryVersion'
> ./.libs/libkpovmodeler.so: undefined reference to
> `XF86VidModeGetModeLine'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> The missing symbols are defined in libXxf86vm.a

kdegraphics certainly builds here, and the most recent upload built fine on 
the buildds. We depend on libxxf86vm-dev, so everything should be 
available. I'm not sure why you would get a different result on your 
machine. Are you running X.Org from experimental?

Cheers,
Christopher Martin