Em 23-12-2013 08:13, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu: > Em 23-12-2013 07:07, William Harrington escreveu: >> Greetings, >> >> There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the >> links for required dependencies of Xorg libs. >> >> An example: >> >> When a user attempts to build WIreshark, the require deps will take >> them all the way to xorg-proto. >> >> I have also been told that util-macros isn't required for xproto. I >> haven't confirmed, so I won't deal with that here. >> >> THe problem is, that when someone is following required dependencies >> and gets to xorg-proto or util macros, XORG_PREFIX won't be set if >> they follow dependencies rather than going straight to the Xorg >> introduction page. >> >> xorg-proto ( which has util-macros as required dependency) does not >> have Xorg introduction as a required dependency where XORG_PREFIX and >> XORG_CONFIG is set. >> >> This is a problem and has been for some time. Users constantly come to >> support (more irc than the mailing list) with issues regarding >> libraries and headers not found. Of course, we don't support zombies, >> but clearly, if you go from top to bottom and then someone decides >> that they would want to install Xorg dependencies while following >> required dependency links, they don't get XORG_CONFIG or XORG_PREFIX >> set. >> >> Since the Xorg libs will eventually link the required deps all the way >> to util-macros as a required dependency of xorg-proto, I think it'd be >> a suggestion to have the xorg introduction as a dependency of util- >> macros or xorg-proto or both. >> >> A lot of people do follow links rather than know if they want to build >> some or all of Xorg, and when they do this, they don't get to the Xorg >> introduction page for Xorg. People can argue all they want that users >> should know if they want any or all of Xorg installed before building >> an app that may use a GUI. The problem is that the required dependency >> chain is broken. I followed Wireshark all the way back to util-macros, >> and nothing about XORG_PREFIX and XORG_CONFIG was mentioned. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> WIlliam Harrington >> > > I confirm that. > > When studying the ticket created by Chris, I did a bit different from > you. Started at Introduction to Xorg-7.7 and then pressed "Next". The > same problem appears also in xcb-proto-1.9. Today, I stopped there. > > I think the solution of including introduction as dependency for > xorg-proto and for xcb-proto seems to be a good solution. >
For util-macros, fixed at r12448. Thanks. -- []s, Fernando -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
