RE: problems of building xserver

[Wayne <shhuango@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Subject: Re: problems of building xserver
> From: seb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: shhuango@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:17:11 +0100
>
> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 06:19 +0000, Wayne wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was building xserver by following
> > http://www.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide
> > While building app/bitmap, I got this error...
> >
> > ./configure: line 4003: syntax error near unexpected token 'BITMAP'
> > ./configure: line 4003: 'XAW_CHECK_XPRINT_SUPPORT(BITMAP)'
> >
> > But, I had built lib/libXaw. I have no idea to fix it...
> > Did I miss some steps of building???
> >
> > Wayne
>
> I came up against this as well myself, a few days ago. The problem is
> that libXaw has changed - the developers have removed libXaw.so.8,
> leaving only libXaw .so.6 and libXaw.so.7. libXaw.so.8 is the one with
> XPrint support in it (I think, this is slightly garbled as I am not an
> expert on this) and has been removed as xprint is being deprecated.
>
> I got round it in some kludgy way by leaving an old copy of libXaw.so.8
> around, if I recall correctly.
>
> I think (I may be wrong) that the maintainers of app/bitmap and similar
> apps need to make some changes to their configure.ac/Makefile.am scripts
> to come in line with changes to libXaw.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Seb James
>
>
>
Hey Seb,
 
Is there any solution to solve this problem except waiting the maintainer to fix it?
 
Thanks
 
Wayne

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