Reported by Gerd:

http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5477


Le 13 janvier 2012 17:53, Philippe Veber <philippe.ve...@gmail.com> a écrit
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> Le 13 janvier 2012 17:47, Gerd Stolpmann <i...@gerd-stolpmann.de> a écrit
> :
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> Am Freitag, den 13.01.2012, 17:13 +0100 schrieb Adrien:
>> > On 13/01/2012, Gerd Stolpmann <i...@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:
>> > > Am Freitag, den 13.01.2012, 15:17 +0100 schrieb Philippe Veber:
>> > >> pveber@gesundheit:~/usr/src/ocaml-3.12.1$ pkg-config --libs x11
>> > >> -lX11
>> > >
>> > > Traditionally, X11 came with its own system called imake, which is a
>> > > preprocessor for makefiles. If there is now pkg-config support, this
>> is
>> > > very new, or an extension by the distributor.
>> >
>> > I don't know how old this would be but it's upstream at least in
>> libX11-1.4.2.
>>
>> So far I can trace it the file x11.pc appeared in xorg's version of X.
>> So quite a time ago. Note that especially commercial OS are behind when
>> it comes to renewing X11. E.g. I saw complaints that MacOS 10.4 did not
>> ship it, and it was first available in 10.5 (2007). OpenSolaris fixed it
>> in 2008. The commercial Solaris probably still misses it.
>>
>> Anyway, I think we should use pkg-config if available.
>>
>> Philippe: Did you already file a bug?
>>
> Not yet, but I'd be happy to. Do you mean ocaml or godi's bug tracker? I
> must say I'm not exactly an expert on these issues so I'd understand if
> you'd rather file the bug yourself, for clarity's sake.
>
> ph.
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>>
>> Gerd
>>
>> > Regards,
>> > Adrien Nader
>> >
>>
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