On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 03:19 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Simon Geard wrote these words on 01/30/06 03:14 CST:
> 
> > Well, it's a program installed by *monolithic* X. In modular, it's
> > provided by the imake package, so if Tom is playing with that, he might
> > not have it installed.
> 
> Good point. Sheesh, that is huge. A KDE build problem because a guy
> didn't install the (which he may not need) imake package. Man, this
> X 7.0 is turning out to be a real PITA.

Here's something you might find interesting, Randy. Have a look at some
autotools-based packages, and search for 'xmkmf' in the configure
script.

Looks to me like one of the standard template files for those scripts
has a dependency on xmkmf as a way of detecting if X is installed - it
seems to correspond to the --with-x parameter to configure. I've not
tried building a system with X7.0 that didn't include xmkmf, but it's
probably something worth investigating.

This doesn't affect every packages, but I found it in many of the Gnome
packages, and some of the freedesktop ones (e.g startup-notification,
glitz). I don't have KDE installed, but Tom's error would suggest that
at least some of it's packages do the same thing.

Simon.

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