----- Original Message ----- > 2013/3/15 Andrew Hughes <gnu.and...@redhat.com>: > >> Might want to update configure to check for these libs on linux. > >> > > > > Well that won't work everywhere: > > > > $ apt-get install libx11-dev libxext-dev libxt-dev libxrender-dev > > bash: apt-get: command not found > > > > so this advice has limited usage anyway. > > Actually the configure script does detect wether you are using debs > or rpms > and gives advice accordingly.
And what if you're using neither? > It does check for some X11 libraries, > but as the OpenJDK has moved on, there are new dependencies that are > not checked. Hmmm, the failure Omair quotes in: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2013-March/008375.html is for XRender which has been a dependency since 7. It's even in IcedTea6 as we backported it. I'll bring the check from IcedTea over to OpenJDK. > This should be fixed. The suggestions are easy to > maintain > and the package names do not change that often. Depends how many distros you intend to support. > > //Fredrik > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
