[Xastir] Ubuntu 6.10 make error

Bob Nielsen nielsen at oz.net
Sun Mar 4 23:23:31 EST 2007


On Mar 4, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:20:07PM -0800, we recorded a bogon- 
> computron collision of the <nielsen at oz.net> flavor, containing:
>> You should install x11proto-print-dev.
>
> I don't think that's right.
>
> Try installing libxp-dev.
>
> Something in the package system must have changed.  A user some  
> time ago
> claimed that installing libxp-dev through apt-get was necessary,  
> and I doubted
> that because I hadn't explicitly installed it myself --- the motif  
> library
> should have caused it to be installed as a dependency, but  
> apparently it
> doesn't anymore (maybe lesstif did and OpenMotif doesn't).
>
> libxp is the X print extension, and libxp-dev will install the  
> header files
> that are clearly trying to be installed.
>
> If installing libxp-dev is the answer to this, then I'll need to re- 
> re-re-edit
> the wiki page for the Ubuntu 6.10 install.


 From the error message, the missing file was X11/extensions/Print.h,  
and

$ apt-file search X11/extensions/Print.h
x11proto-print-dev: usr/include/X11/extensions/Print.h

There is no such file in libxp-dev (which I don't have installed.)   
Possibly it was part of that package at one time.

Bob, N7XY




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