Devel branch rebuilds

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Dec 23 09:19:08 UTC 2005


Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Once upon a time Thursday 22 December 2005 8:57 pm, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
>>On 12/21/05, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I'm sure most of you are aware of this, but I just wanted to remind
>>>those that are able to to test their stuff to see if it needs a rebuild
>>>when core devel freezes in prep for Test2.
>>
>>there seems to be some real oddities in the rawhide build environment
>>still. I keep doing local mock builds of things and i have to explcitly
>>pull in libXau-devel for nearly every application as a BuildRequires...
>>which seems a bit odd to me.

> most  configure scripts are broken  and check for the existance of one header 
> and one shared library to test if X is available.  

Similarly, KDE apps' configure includes generic tests for X that check 
for the existence of libXt.

-- Rex




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