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

[Dan N. <dbn...@gm...>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Brian Paul <br...@vm...> wrote:
> 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.

No problem. I'll look at it a little later and see if there's more of
a general fix from autoconf. I imagine it's not the last time we'll
see build breakage in the demos.

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Dan