Re: Two minor patches

[Dima K. <gn...@di...>]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017, at 14:13, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> > 2. The build was broken on a recent Debian system: we were calling
> > XInitThreads(), but not linking in -lX11. The patch adds the linkage
> 
> Sigh.  This keeps coming back and back and back.
> Adding -lX11 fixes most linux installations but breaks everyone else.
> 
> See for example https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/1764/

OK, I read your links, but it's not obvious how it breaks everyone else.
Is the concern that some platforms have wx, but not X11, so the link to
libX11 will fail? What if instead of linking to -lX11 we link to
$LIBRARIES_FOR_X?