[Xquartz-dev] X11 2.2.0_rc1

[Peter O'Gorman]

Martin Costabel wrote:
> Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>> Because they are horrific reminders of the dark ages from which we
>> shall never return.
>>
>> That and they didn't really work right to begin with.
>>
>> On Mar 26, 2008, at 17:05, Martin Costabel wrote:
>>> Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>>> I've put together a release candidate pkg of 2.2.0.
>>>
>>> Why have xmkmf, imake and friends disappeared?
> 
> But they are still used by open source projects, for example with the
> AC_PATH_X autoconf macro for locating X11 libs and includes. In theory,
> this macro should also work when xmkmf is absent, but in practice it
> doesn't. I haven't yet tried to find out exactly how and why it fails in
> the concrete case where I noticed the failure.
> 
> I noticed the absence of xmkmf when suddenly building texmacs failed.
> With all previous versions of X11 it builds OK, but with 2.2.0-rc1 it
> doesn't. Copying the missing xmkmf, imake, and the lib/X11/config/
> directory back from 2.1.4 into 2.2.0-rc1 makes it build again.
> 

Ew! autoconf/libs.m4 does indeed seem to require xmkmf to find X11
libraries. I will report this to the autoconf list later (need coffee
and breakfast first).

I do not think removal of xmkmf at this time is advisable, due to this
autoconf limitation :(

Peter
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