On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:17:50AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote: > Compiling XFree86 with this patch does not refer X11/* headers > out of the source tree. Right. > Of cause Build-Depends: xlibs-dev is not needed. Nor should it ever be. Source packages that Build-Depend on themselves are stupid. > I've tested the build under clean installed chroot sid tree. > The chroot system tree does not have X11 headers. Right. > This fix is not enough for these bug reports? It's enough, but it's not, in my opinion, optimal. It's silly to compile Xlib and Xext *object* files when all that are needed are the headers. However, rectifying this silliness probably means extensive Imake surgery on the source tree. > I'm confising about `external dependencues'. It means the X build would require something pre-existing on the system; the stuff that is declared in the Build-Depends or implicitly available via Essential and Build-Essential packages. > I believed that "`external dependencues` said in the reports > means xfree86 build depends xfree86 generated files. So, > we should add xfree86 Build-Depends: xlibs-dev or so....." No, I think that would be a very poor solution. Thanks for your patch. -- G. Branden Robinson | Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? Debian GNU/Linux | A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount; branden@debian.org | fsck;more;yes;fsck;fsck;fsck; http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | umount;sleep
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