[Xastir] X Printing Extension

[Greg Eigsti]

MacTel OSX and FreeBSD i386 look good


On 1/24/07 3:08 PM, "Greg Eigsti" <greg at eigsti.com> wrote:

> 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.
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