Re: configure error: "Can't find X11 headers and libs"
Re: configure error: "Can't find X11 headers and libs"
- Subject: Re: configure error: "Can't find X11 headers and libs"
- From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:47:17 -0700
On Jul 7, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Why does Apple have to make their system so different from other
systems?
This. The Apple developers inform us that upstream xmkmf is broken,
and dead at X.org.
Well, we're not just making it up - go ahead and ask them. :-)
But out here in the trenches, I still see it on my fresh-as-daisies
Ubuntu Hardy Heron install. Even if I completely
uninstall and reinstall all things X, xmkmf comes back with the rest
of the dev tools. And it even works, at least well enough to build
the few things I've built manually.
I'm sure there are a number of Linux systems that continue to ship the
bits themselves because it's just as easy to do so as not. Where the
Linux folks have a distinct advantage, however, is in the number of
people willing to keep those bits current and relevant. We, on the
other hand, have one Intern working part-time and n volunteers, where
n may now be zero - I haven't seen anything recently to suggest
otherwise.
As folks have probably noticed, I've also tried to throw additional
money at the problem without success. - if I had a guitar, this is the
part where I'd start singing "Where have all the contractors gone?
(long time passing...)"
- Jordan
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