X11R7 failure

X11R7 failure

[Chong Yidong]

I just got a build failure report from one of the pretesters:

> I have just looked at the failure to build it on NetBSD 5.0.2
> AMD64, our first system with X11R7.  The configure script fails to
> detect the presence of X11 libraries, even though they are present:
>
> % ls -1 /usr/X11R7/lib/lib* | wc -l
> 323

I don't know if there is anything we can do about this, since the X11
checks are made by Autoconf.  We're using Autoconf 6.2 for emacs-23, but
glancing at the output of Autoconf 6.5 from the trunk, looks like it
doesn't look for /usr/X11R7 either.

I'm not using X11R7 yet, but my impression was that it isn't supposed to
live under /usr/X11R7, but directly in /usr.  Does anyone know what the
situation is?

Re: X11R7 failure

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-04-22 20:10 +0200, Chong Yidong wrote:

> I just got a build failure report from one of the pretesters:
>
>> I have just looked at the failure to build it on NetBSD 5.0.2
>> AMD64, our first system with X11R7.  The configure script fails to
>> detect the presence of X11 libraries, even though they are present:
>>
>> % ls -1 /usr/X11R7/lib/lib* | wc -l
>> 323
>
> I don't know if there is anything we can do about this, since the X11
> checks are made by Autoconf.  We're using Autoconf 6.2 for emacs-23, but
> glancing at the output of Autoconf 6.5 from the trunk, looks like it
> doesn't look for /usr/X11R7 either.

It is version 2.65 (not 6.5), and this version does look in /usr/X11R7:

,----
| % grep -n X11R7 configure
| 6987:/usr/X11R7/include
| 6993:/usr/include/X11R7
| 6999:/usr/local/X11R7/include
| 7005:/usr/local/include/X11R7
`----

> I'm not using X11R7 yet, but my impression was that it isn't supposed to
> live under /usr/X11R7, but directly in /usr.  Does anyone know what the
> situation is?

The standard installation directory for X.Org is /usr, but NetBSD
apparently uses /usr/X11R7.  The autoconf changelog mentions that it
caters to that since version 2.64:

2009-05-11  Patrick Welche  <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>  (tiny change)

	Also try X11R7 when looking for X11 files, for NetBSD.
	* lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Also try directories
	with X11R7 in the name.

Sven