[open-vm-tools-devel] [ open-vm-tools-Tracker-1796805 ] Cannot configure without X libraries

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Tracker item #1796805, was opened at 2007-09-17 22:40
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Category: misc
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Alf Mel (alfmel)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Cannot configure without X libraries

Initial Comment:
Thank you for releasing these tools to the Open Source community.

I am trying out the new tools by trying to simply build the modules in a system that does not have X installed.  I do this because I don't install X on my servers to reduce the VM hard disk footprint.

However, when running the configure script with --without-x --disable-multimon, the configure script exits with an error when trying to find the xrandr library:

checking for pkg-config... yes
checking for XRRQueryVersion in -lXrandr... no
configure: error: libXrandr not found. Please install the libXrandr devel package(s).

The README file contains the following:

(*)Building Linux kernel modules:
1) ./configure
2) make modules

Since I cannot run configure successfully, I am not even able to compile the kernel modules that should not require any X libraries what so ever.

Could you fix your configure script to allow configuration without any X libraries?  Ideally, it would also be nice to know what packages will *not* be compiled due to failed X dependencies during configuration.

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