Re: [GD-DEVEL] LibGD should not link against libX11

Hello,

On 1/2/07, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote:

> I believe the issue I am raising is the the one expressed like this in
> the pkg-config manpage:
>
> > Don't add any flags for required packages; pkg-config will add those
> > automatically.
>
>
> What I request is that you do not hardcode a linkage that is not truly
> used anywhere.
>
> If you trust info provided by pkg-config, then please do so. What is
> currently done is _not_ to probe pkg-config info at bootstrapping time.

I did not find a libXpm that does not rely on X11 (incl. on Debian)

I agree however that using pkg-config will fix the problem as soon as
a system has a libxpm with no X11 dependency (that's not the case on
debian right now, neither on nearly all distros I met).

> Yes, I do not expect any changes at all to happen directly from this
> change. But I can then move to the next level and bug the X11 developers
> about the libXPM dependency on libX11.

Please do yes, as i will not remove (except by replacing the XPM LIBS
and CFLAGS with the results from `pkg-config --libs xpm` and
`pkg-confif --cflags xpm`

If you have a patch, I will commit it quickly. It has to use
pkg-config if it is present, if it is not, it has fall back to what we
have now (X11 incl.).

Cheers,
--Pierre