> > Anyway - returning to the question at hand... Do we 
> actually need Xext
> > or not?
> > I'm not even clear as to what it provides!
> I'm not a unix X11 geek too, so I used the nm tool on libXext 
> to look at the APIs listing, then used grep to look if we 
> used some extensions prefix and it seems that (at least) for 
> Xdbe extensions, we need that one :)
> 
> So I guess we should make the replacement include and 
> probably check in the configure.in when we need Xext that it 
> is here, like in the Xdeb enabling option ?


XDBE enabled is the default for 1.3 (and I think fltk-2) so by default
we do want Xext then... And it does seems like a good thing to have.
For fltk-1 the default was XDBE disabled.

It still seems odd to me that your ubuntu box didn't have libXext
installed by default though... 




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