Re: libX11-6.2.1 can't find keysymdef.h, and gmake needed

On 11/26 03:05PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> My fix for libX11 was to patch configure:
>  #
> -KEYSYMDEF=""
>  for flag in $X11_CFLAGS; do

Um... I changed X11_CFLAGS to XPROTO_CFLAGS on 2003/11/13, because I ran
into a problem much like this. Have you updated from CVS since then, and
re-run autoconf?

I guess you have an additional problem though. It looks like pkg-config
omits /usr/include from output for --cflags. (I suppose nobody
previously had trouble because everbody wanted to install in
/usr/local/include.) The right patch to configure.ac probably makes the
loop read:

for flag in /usr/include $XPROTO_CFLAGS; do

Of course, the C pre-processor can search for this file quite easily. If
somebody has a way to just query cpp for this path, that seems even
better.

>  "/scratch/pkgsrc/new/libX11/work.puget/libX11-6.2.1/src/util/Makefile"
>  line 472: Need an operator
>  bmake: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue

It looks like the line in question is "override CC = gcc". (In the
future, please include lines referenced by errors; the Makefiles are
auto-generated, after all, and might be different for you than me) I can
believe that "override" is a GNU make extension, though `info make`
doesn't say that it is.

It's been suggested that makekeys should be translated into some
scripting language (e.g. Python or Perl) so that we don't have to think
about cross-compiling most of Xlib and then natively compiling makekeys.
If somebody did that we could discard the entire util directory,
including this apparently lone and gratuitous incompatibility with other
make implementations. (I think it's pretty cool that all those other
makefiles just worked with bmake, even though you're probably the first
person to try it on freedesktop.org sources.)
-- 
Jamey Sharp <[email protected]> - http://minilop.net/

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