Xheader files? was Re: [Xastir] new error

[John Kraus]

On Friday 25 February 2005 10:08, Tom Russo wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 05:44:22PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron 
>
> > configure:4601: result: no
> > configure:5760: error: *** No X11!  Install X-Windows development
> > headers/libraries! ***
>
> This is the important part.
>
> You don't have the X development headers installed.  This is usually
> a separate package from the rest of X --- it contains the header files
> and libraries needed to compile X programs, whereas the base X packages
> in most distributions only contain the servers and other programs needed
> to *run* X programs.
>
> I don't know what that package would be called on your system.
Tom,

Does this sound like the correct species of package? It is not currently 
installed.

snipped from Kpackage

x-window-system-dev

name
x-window-system-dev
version
4.3.0.dfsg.1-10
group
x11
size
240000
file-size
151050
description
X Window System development components This metapackage provides the 
components of the X Window System as developed by the XFree86 Project which 
are most interesting to programmers. . X Window System design documentation, 
manual pages, library reference works, unstripped and static versions of the 
shared libraries, C header files, and special versions of libraries available 
only in static form (with and without PIC symbols included) are supplied by 
the packages depended on by this metapackage.
architecture
i386
depends
libdps-dev, libdps1-dbg, libice-dev, libice6-dbg, libsm-dev, libsm6-dbg, 
libx11-6-dbg, libx11-dev, libxaw7-dbg, libxaw7-dev, libxext-dev, 
libxext6-dbg, libxi-dev, libxi6-dbg, libxmu-dev, libxmu6-dbg, libxmuu-dev, 
libxmuu1-dbg, libxp-dev, libxp6-dbg, libxpm-dev, libxpm4-dbg, libxrandr-dev, 
libxrandr2-dbg, libxt-dev, libxt6-dbg, libxtrap-dev, libxtrap6-dbg, 
libxtst-dev, libxtst6-dbg, libxv-dev, libxv1-dbg, pm-dev, x-dev, 
xlibmesa-gl-dev, xlibmesa-glu-dev, xlibmesa-gl-dbg, xlibmesa-glu-dbg, 
xlibosmesa4-dbg, xlibosmesa-dev, xlibs-static-dev, xlibs-static-pic, xspecs
priority
extra
maintainer
Debian X Strike Force <debian-x at lists.debian.org>
source
xfree86
filename
pool/main/x/xfree86/ x-window-system-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-10_i386.deb