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Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?



markm@student.unsw.edu.au writes:

> On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> [snip] 
> > [1] The makedepend program gets stuck in an infinite loop when attempting
> > to generate dependencies in xc/programs/xterm.  One of Tom Dickey's
> > patches, #130 or #131, is probably the culprit since I think these are the
> > only two changes that happened to the xterm sources between 3.9.18 and 4.0.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just a little extra info - this is a mail I was composing before I read
> your mail (obviously I realise that this is low priority till woody). 
> 
> I have two potato systems [Sys1 hasn't been updated for a while and
> seems to have gone a little mouldy ;]
> 

the problem is with curses.h in libncurses5-dev. it redefines ERR and
as such it conflicts with the definition from the glibc headers. this
was the same problem noticed in dpkg 1.6.10. i just commented out the
redefinition of ERR in /usr/include/curses.h and then the X package
compiled just  fine. i am sure the proper solution is the one used in
dpkg-1.6.11 though.

--alex--

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