Re: No check for xpm.h in gnome-libs configure
- From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- To: Matt Schalit <mschalit pacbell net>
- Cc: gnome-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: No check for xpm.h in gnome-libs configure
- Date: 02 Feb 2001 17:30:03 -0500
Matt Schalit <mschalit pacbell net> writes:
> Erik Walthinsen wrote:
> >
> > I just wasted an hour with a failed build of gnome-libs-1.0.55 on a
> > NetWinder, because xpm-devel wasn't installed. There is no check in
> > configure.in for this file, so it fails far into the build. I looked at
> > the latest in CVS, and there is still no check. Either that or it's
> > non-obvious. If there isn't one there, one should probably be added.
> >
> > Erik Walthinsen <omega temple-baptist com> - System Administrator
>
>
>
> Sorry to hear about your hour that disappeared (snicker). I've been
> working on gnome-libs for three weeks now.
>
> I'm not sure why you're trying to compile 1.0.55, when 1.2.11 is the
> latest stable release, as of January 31, 2001, but that's neither
> here nor there.
>
> When I configure 1.2.11, I see the following:
>
> configure:2689: checking for XpmFreeXpmImage in -lXpm
> configure:2708: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/i
> nclude -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X/include -L/us
> r/local/BerkeleyDB/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X/lib -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lgli
> b -lXext -lX11 -lsocket -lm conftest.c -lXpm -lsocket -lnsl -pthread 1>&5
>
>
> >From my limited knowledge, I think that -lXpm would need to find it's header file,
> or the configure statement would fail.
>
> Do you concur?
AC_CHECK_LIB() doesn't catch missing header files.
But if you have the libraries to link to, and no header files, then
that's a broken system, and handling broken systems is something
in ./configure is something one could work on forever and still
not catch everything that could go wrong.
Regards,
Owen
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