Re: How to compile backend xlib based on debian lenny's gnustep-gui

[Fred Kiefer]

Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Fred Kiefer wrote:
>> There is a second call to XShmQueryVersion in context.c, but this is
>> protected by #ifdef XSHM
>> If this fails for you, then your system is in a state where configure
>> detects XSHM, but it isn't usable.
>>
>>   
> If this package search command output is of help to tell my case:
> 
> $ aptitude search libxext
> p   libxext-dev                     - X11 miscellaneous extensions library 
> (deve
> i A libxext6                        - X11 miscellaneous extension library     
>   
> p   libxext6-dbg                    - X11 miscellaneous extensions library 
> (debu
> 
> Where "i" means installed, "p" means available & not installed.
> 
>> I still suggest that you install the libXext development package. Jeff
>> Teunissen wrote that this is called libxext-dev.
>>   
> I am purely interested to spend a few minutes to see if this is solvable
> without libxext, not that I hate to use it:)
> 
> And the result is YES. Following your advice I got it running without
> libxext. If it is not really needed in xlib backend, do you think it
> nice to have dependency to libxext removed in next release? I am working
> on improving "Build Guide for Unix" and will update document if you
> update the source code.

I already cleaned up the code in XWindowBuffer.m to no longer require
the Xsh additions and context.c has been that way for quite some time.
What did you need to change to get it working?

Fred