On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 05:15:59PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:59:50AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > my apologises, Marcus. i'll follow your suggestion next time. > > It never hurts to ask if you see something unusual. Any unexplained > difference between GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd is by definition unusual :).
I _did_ ask (in one of the *-hurd mls). then two people responded with opposite opinions on wether it's a system bug or a bug in the package. the discussion didn't get any further. > > xfree86: see http://people.debian.org/~rmh/xfree86/glxinfo-makefile.diff > > (applied) > > xft2: bug #185536 > > gtkgl2: bug #186760 > > libgcrypt: bug #187309 > > [...] (and more i forgot and are already "fixed") B> > I think that 185536 (xft2) might be a genuine bug (although I can not check > without the X sources), note that in debian, xft2 is packaged separately from xfree86. i don't remember which packages are broken by the lack of flags in xft-config, though. > while the others probably are not. g++ should > always add libstdc++ automatically for C++ programs. in xfree86, the makefile calls gcc instead of g++ when it wants to link glxinfo. glxinfo is a C program that links against a C++ library (i think you've hit this one long ago, during the libio transition). the pattern that seems to be repeating is: liba linked against libb and progc linked against liba imply: to link progc, you need -la and -lb on GNU, but only -la on other systems -- Robert Millan
