[Xastir] libxp and Xastir

[ZPO]

Live dangerously...

Check it in and see if there are complaints when compiling on current
systems
On Oct 29, 2015 3:06 PM, "km5vy Tom Russo" <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 03:53:46PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 02:41:04PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> > > > Please try the following:
> > > >  - edit configure.ac in the Xastir source tree, and find the
> following line:
> > > >    AC_CHECK_LIB([Xp], [XpGetDocumentData])
> > > >  - Comment out this line by adding "#" at the beginning
> > > >  - Run the "bootstrap.sh" script in the source directory
> > > >  - Try reconfiguring and building Xastir now
> > >
> > > Works on OpenSuSE-12.3, and that's by no means the latest version!
> > >
> > > Just another data-point.
> >
> > Works on my BSD system, too.
>
> FWIW, on BSD, the Motif library still requires libXp, but it is handled
> automagically by the shared library system, and explicit linking of libXp
> by Xastir is not required.  In this case, installing libXm forces an
> install
> of libXp, and the libXm library is properly linked to bring in its shared
> library dependencies, so it's all good.
>
> The problem was apparently on one system back in 2007 (which, according to
> my
> email archives, was a SUSE system), which didn't do this properly.
>
> I can proceed two ways --
>   - wait for lots of folks to check the procedure above and see if it
> breaks
>     their build and report in that it does.  If nobody reports that it
> breaks,
>     check it in.
>   - check it in, and wait for the complaints when it breaks someone's
> build.
>
> Votes?
>
> --
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