[Xastir] X Printing Extension

[Greg Eigsti]

Builds fine on PPC OSX.


On 1/24/07 1:55 PM, "Tom Russo" <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> For a number of years (at least dating back to the first version on
> SourceForge)
> xastir's configure.ac has probed for XpGetDocumentData in the Xp library.
> 
> As far as I can tell, Xastir does not use the Xp library --- there are no
> calls
> anywhere to the X Printing Extension library, and xastir compiles and
> links just fine without it.
> 
> I bring this up because a user edited my HowTo:Ubuntu 6.10 documentation
> to say that libxp-dev was required --- this, despite the fact that I had
> tested, double checked, and triple checked the instructions in that page
> and confirmed that following every line of its recommendations (which did
> not install libxp-dev) resulted in a working version of xastir.
> 
> So this afternoon I removed the probe for the Xp library from configure.ac.
> 
> If you have any trouble building xastir now that it doesn't link in libXp,
> please let me know.  If xastir *does* require this library, it would be
> because
> some other library needs it indirectly --- but since all of my Ubuntu 6.10
> builds work just fine without it, I'm pretty sure that this inclusion was just
> a relic of an early version of the configure script, not an actual dependency.