Re: [Mesa3d-dev] xdemos build breakage...

[Brian P. <br...@vm...>]

Dan Nicholson wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Jeff Smith <why...@ya...> wrote:
>>> This change:
>>>
>>> commit d888bbc45a84946cafb4f4d2c89681a580cd89bc
>>> Author: Brian Paul <br...@vm...>
>>> Date:   Tue Nov 17 13:39:13 2009 -0700
>>>
>>>    progs/xdemos: added -lX11 -lpthread for GNU gold linker
>>>
>>> breaks the build if you are building under a specific path prefix
>>> (say, /opt/XORG) and you have an existing X11 installation in the
>>> usual location (/usr, etc.)
>>
>> I found the same problem and sent a patch to this list a few hours ago to address it:
>>
>> "[PATCH] Add -L$(libdir) for xdemos and egl so that the right libX11 is found"
>
>That's not really the right thing, though. You're assuming that I have
>libX11 in the same libdir as I'm installing to and I want to use it.
>The fact is that configure uses pkg-config to check for x11 and other
>libraries needed to link the demos. It certainly was working before
>without requiring hardcoding things into the Makefiles.

Oops, I didn't see your reply, Dan.  I already committed Jeff's patch.  If you have  better fix, please revert.

-Brian