On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Lee Bengston <[email protected]> wrote: > When Ubuntu 9.04 came out, I tried compiling without xorg-dev, and it > worked again. Although I didn't write the HowTo for Ubuntu 9.04, I > mentioned the ability to compile without xorg-dev to Kevin R., who did > write it, and I believe he (and later several others following the > same HowTo) installed without xorg-dev and did not experience > difficulty. In hindsight snapshots probably didn't work - shows how > often a bunch of us actually use that feature. Because xorg-dev had > broken KDE 4 in another distribution, and I hadn't tried Kubuntu 9.04 > yet, I thought it best to leave out xorg-dev in the 9.04 HowTo given > things seemed to work without it.
I have not followed all of the mailing list threads lately, but that's my recollection as well. It looks like xorg-dev was in the original Ubuntu 9.04 HowTo when I posted it, but I took it out after feedback on the mailing list that indicated it wasn't needed. Here's the two versions: http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php?title=HowTo:Ubuntu_9.04&diff=3129&oldid=3120 Sorry about that, I didn't omitting it was causing an issue. I guess I never use the snapshot feature! > After compiling Xastir without xorg-dev today in the new Kubuntu 9.10 > VM, I then added xorg-dev and recompiled. It didn't harm KDE 4, and > snapshots worked. So we're definitely good to go with xorg-dev back > in the wiki. Thanks Lee and Tom for figuring this out, and for updating the wiki instructions! Kevin KB9MQU _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
