Re: HELP!! Re: Bug#365126: wmrack - FTBFS: error: WMRack needs X Windows!!!
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 04:24:11PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> x_includes and x_libraries now expand to the empty string, biting
> anything that assumed otherwise.
Hi, Aaron, thanks, that's definitely useful information, and I will be
incorporating your patch, but I don't think it addresses the immediate
problem (although I'm willing to be proved wrong).
AC_PATH_X
if test "x$no_x" = "xyes"; then
AC_MSG_ERROR([WMRack needs X Windows!!!])
else
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I${x_includes}"
LIBS="$LIBS -L${x_libraries} -lX11"
fi
The 'test "x$no_x" = "xyes"' is returning true, so it's not even
getting to the CFLAGS part. So I think I still need more help.
Looking though the configure file, it seems that the initial header
file test is for Xos.h, but if that fails (and it might if x_includes
is ending up empty), the backup test is for Intrinsic.h. The autoconf
documentation suggests that the search for Xos.h may have been a
bug-fix, in which case, the backup test may have been overlooked,
making this a bug in autoconf, with a simple (for now) workaround of
adding a build-dependency on libxt-dev. But I'd like to confirm this
reasoning. If I'm right, this may affect a lot of packages...
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