Re: compiling...
Eric Anholt <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver |
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| Message-ID | <1069868772.701.24.camel@leguin> |
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 07:10, Keith Whitwell wrote: > OK, so I'm basically an idiot when it comes to X - but why does ./configure > die if it can't find xdmcp.pc? > > Hmm...from this mail: > > http://pdx.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xserver/2003-October/000008.html > > it looks like xdmcp.pc is produced in the process of building xlibs... Isn't > that a bit backwards - that the server can't compile without the libs? > > Doesn't it also defeat somewhat the idea of splitting the repositories up? > > Keith The server does require some libraries. One of the good bits about the kdrive server is that it links against shared libraries like libXdmcp instead of building and linking statically like the XFree86 server (and DRI CVS) does. From the perspective of a package maintainer, it's much better. -- Eric Anholt [email protected] http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ [email protected]