Bug#387133: libx11: FTBFS: floating point exception

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 02:01:59PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Package: libx11
>> Version: 2:1.0.0-8
>> Severity: serious
>> Justification: no longer builds from source
>> 
>> Hi, when I try to build libx11 under etch or sid I get the following error:
>> 
>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/scratch/build/amd64/etch-biarch/xorg/libx11/libx11-1.0.0/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src/util'
>> ../src/util/makekeys < /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h > ks_tables_h
>> /bin/sh: line 1: 27372 Floating point exception../src/util/makekeys </usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h >ks_tables_h
>> make[2]: *** [ks_tables.h] Error 136
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/scratch/build/amd64/etch-biarch/xorg/libx11/libx11-1.0.0/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src'
>> 
>> Full debuild log for sid is attached.
>
> Yes, unfortunately x11proto-core 7.0.3 or above (or something) breaks
> the build of libx11 << 1.0.1.

Meanwhile Tollef Fog Heen told me to try the Ubuntu version (1.0.3)
which worked. So I just added the makekeys.c from it to 1.0.0 and then
it compiled fine. If updating to 1.0.1+ is too much change then maybe
this quick fix would do.

MfG
        Goswin