Re: Compiling IceCat on gNewSense2.0

[Yavor Doganov]

Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
> 
> I realize that the problem is that XLIBS and XT_LIBS are empty.

This is only a consequence of missing libraries/headers at configure
time.  The cure is to have everything necessary installed, not to try
to cheat the build system.

> I run Debian and have the libxt-dev package installed.

I suspect that you attempted to build the package, then installed
libxt-dev and retried?  If so, please rerun ./configure in order
config/autoconf.mk and the other necessary files to be recreated.

> When I set these variables manually to 

Setting them manually is asking for trouble.  There's a reason why
these checks are being made at configure time.  Overriding the values
manually is doomed to fail in many cases, since usually AC_CHECK_LIB
and friends not only set -lfoo but often define HAVE_LIBFOO -- there
might be code guarded in preprocessor directives so that it could be
conditionally compiled.  (Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with IceCat at
all, speaking in general.)

You can check exactly which checks are performed at configure.in:2793.