Mark Hindess wrote:
On 10 February 2008 at 0:12, "Nathan Beyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to run a build on a fresh Linux (Ubuntu) box and ran
into an error about not finding "-lXtst". This seems to be a part
of the libxtst-dev package, but that's not listed on the build
pre-requisites, at least not yet. I wanted to check before updating
it. Once I installed that package it built.
I'm sure we've had this discussion before but ... rather than relying
on unversioned .so files (such as libXtst.so) which are generally
only found in developer packages, we should be loading/linking known
good-versioned runtime libraries (such as libXtst.so.6). It may be
necessary to attempt to load more than one - such as libXtst.so.5 *if*
someone has tested that this works - but that would be acceptible
and more reliable than the current pot-luck loading of unversioned
libraries.
Yeah, we ended up doing that here [1] by attempting the load of a known
version (LOAD_LIB_VER macro) and if that fails falling back to
unversioned library (LOAD_LIB).
[1]
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/harmony/enhanced/classlib/trunk/modules/awt/src/main/native/x11wrapper/unix/org_apache_harmony_awt_nativebridge_linux_X11.cpp?view=markup
Regards,
Tim
