On 25 January 2007 at 10:12, "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently started working again in ubuntu5 in parallels on the mac > for real (tired of carrying the ubuntu laptop around too...), and I > noticed that to get awt tests to run, I needed to install both libxmu- > dev and libxtst-dev, even though the non-dev versions were around. > > Why do we need the -dev versions of these? > > And is this documented? I looked at the getting started docs and > other things, and couldn't find anything.
The awt code attempts to load the unversioned, libXmu.so, rather than the versioned, libXmu.so.6 (for X11R6). Debian-based distributions don't include these unversioned files in their non-dev packages. I think we decided that we should attempt to load the known-good versioned .so files first and if that fails try to load the unversioned .so. Regards, Mark.
