On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:48:57PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > lablgl (OpenGL bindings for OCaml) FTBFS with X.org, in order to make it > build properly I made the following changes to the package (already > committed in svn): > > * debian/Makefile.config > - added -lXxf86vm to XLIBS, fixes FTBFS with xorg > * debian/control > - added build-dep on libxxf86vm-dev > - added dep from -dev to libxxf86vm-dev > > Without the -lXxf86vm the linker failed complaining about a missing > symbol (XF86VidModeQueryVersion IIRC). > > I will be grateful to people of the X strike force if they can comment > on my changes: are them completely dumb or are them indeed needed for > properly rebuild packages against X.org?
You've hit on the xlibs-static-* issue. libxxf86vm was previously a static library in the xlibs-static-* packages. For X.Org, it was split out as a proper shlib (along with others) but I neglected to add dependencies for it to xlibs-dev. This will be fixed in the upcoming -5 release, but to echo what the other David has said, you should be build-depending on the individual libraries rather than the xlibs-dev package. That'll save you the trouble when we do remove xlibs-dev in the future. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
