Bug#356918: libx11: FTBFS in experimental.

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:03:32PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:49:50PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:49:42PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > Package: libx11
> > > Version: 1:1.0.0-3
> > > Severity: serious
> > > Tags: serious
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Your package is still failing to build.  First I get:
> > > checking for XKBPROTO... configure: error: Package requirements
> > [...]
> > > Which seems to be a missing build dependency on
> > > x11proto-input-dev.
> > 
> > This dependency does exist:
> >   x11proto-xext-dev --> libxi-dev --> x11proto-input-dev
> 
> Not for the libxi-dev from unstable.
> 
> Anyway, the package checks for a "inputproto.pc" file directly.
> It doesn't check for xextproto.pc (at that point), and libxi-dev
> doesn't even contain a .pc file.  So you should build depend on
> it directly too.
> 
> I see no need to make the x11proto-xext-dev depedency on
> libxi-dev versioned, so I suggest you don't do it.

I know nothing about pkg-config and won't fix this stuff myself, but
just to clarify, configure.ac contains
  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(X11, xextproto xtrans xau xcmiscproto)
which is surely why there is this dependency on x11proto-xext-dev.

Denis