dropping autoconf dependency on imake

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Thu Mar 29 08:23:01 UTC 2007


On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:24:22PM +0200, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> kodis at mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov napsal(a):
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:21:14AM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> >> Why does [autoconf] need imake?  Can we get rid of it?
> >      - Macro: AC_PATH_X
> > 	 Try to locate the X Window System include files and
> > 	 libraries.  If the user gave the command line options
> > 	 `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR', use those
> > 	 directories.  If either or both were not given, get the
> > 	 missing values by running `xmkmf' on a trivial `Imakefile'
> > 	 and examining the `Makefile' that it produces.
> This means that the generated configure file needs imake, not that
> autoconf needs imake.

Indeed. Maybe it was needed for the tests? I'll reopen the merge review
bug.

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Pat




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