tags 485224 pending
thanks

  Hi.  Thanks for your report.

From: Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bug#485224: vflib3: FTBFS: Using imake without Build-Depends on 
xutils-dev
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 11:33:16 -0700

> From my pbuilder build log:
>
> ...
> gcc -I../../src -I -g -O2 -g -Wall -O2 -g -Wall -pedantic -ansi 
> -DVFLIB_VERSION=\"3.6.14\" -DHYAKUX11 -c
> hyakux11.c
> rm -f hyakux11.c
> ../../libtool --mode=link \
>                 gcc -g -O2 -g -Wall -O2 -g -Wall -pedantic -ansi 
> -DVFLIB_VERSION=\"3.6.14\" -o hyakux11
> hyakux11.o \
>                    ../../src/libVFlib3.la -L
> gcc -g -O2 -g -Wall -O2 -g -Wall -pedantic -ansi -DVFLIB_VERSION=\"3.6.14\" 
> -o .libs/hyakux11
> hyakux11.o ../../src/.libs/libVFlib3.so -lttf -lt1 -lkpathsea -L/usr/lib 
> -lnsl -lm -L
> gcc: argument to '-L' is missing
> make[3]: *** [hyakux11] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/vflib3-3.6.14/utils/hyaku-1.1.0'
> make[2]: *** [default] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/vflib3-3.6.14/utils'
> make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/vflib3-3.6.14'
> make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

  This is the same problem as #484200, but the different target
in Makefile.

> This is due to the following change in xutils 1:7.3+11:
>
>   * Remove the dependency of xutils against xutils-dev, it was only useful
>     for transitional purpose in Etch, closes: #418123.
>
> My guess would be that the configure script is misusing the AC_PATH_X*
> macro and trying to get a library path directly instead of using the
> appropriate variable which would contain -L*.  So if imake is installed, it
> finds an explicit directory, but if it isn't, it detects the libraries are
> in the system compiler paths and returns an empty string.  (Note this is
> just a guess without actually looking at the configure script.)

  At the end of the configure script, X11/runxmkmf script at
source tree is executed.  This checks if the xmkmf exists.

  Anyway, this is already fixed in my local repository.  I'll
upload soon.

  Thanks.

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