Akira TAGOH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:19:42 +0200, >>>>>> "CM" == Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > CM> Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Ok, here is the Xinerama fix for the metacity package (the same fix >>> should probably be applied to some other packages as well): > > CM> This fix shouldn't go in the metacity package but instead in the > CM> gtk2.0 package. libgtk2.0-dev should depends on xlibs-pic > CM> (xlibs-static-pic doesn't exist) otherwise all applications using > CM> xinerama doesn't work. > > CM> Also a hack to fix a bug I've filed should be reverted (can't find the > CM> bug number and the hack). > > Why is this dependency required? xlibs-pic contains only > static libraries. and it is actually linked statically. so > as you reported before, if .la requires such dependency, a > bug which should be fixed is that, but not the dependency > for -dev package.
If the .la file requires xlibs-pic then the package need to depends on xlibs-pic. Otherwise you can't build any package. Christian
