From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
To: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
Cc: Adrien <camaradetux@gmail.com>,
"Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>,
"caml users" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Compiling the ocaml distribution under multiarched Debian/Ubuntu
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:53:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOOOohTwh+AjuewBhOL-0nPQgOmKQQ34Wv+71PiGOA6dS5GrJQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326473252.14288.97.camel@thinkpad>
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Le 13 janvier 2012 17:47, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> a écrit :
> Am Freitag, den 13.01.2012, 17:13 +0100 schrieb Adrien:
> > On 13/01/2012, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, den 13.01.2012, 15:17 +0100 schrieb Philippe Veber:
> > >> pveber@gesundheit:~/usr/src/ocaml-3.12.1$ pkg-config --libs x11
> > >> -lX11
> > >
> > > Traditionally, X11 came with its own system called imake, which is a
> > > preprocessor for makefiles. If there is now pkg-config support, this is
> > > very new, or an extension by the distributor.
> >
> > I don't know how old this would be but it's upstream at least in
> libX11-1.4.2.
>
> So far I can trace it the file x11.pc appeared in xorg's version of X.
> So quite a time ago. Note that especially commercial OS are behind when
> it comes to renewing X11. E.g. I saw complaints that MacOS 10.4 did not
> ship it, and it was first available in 10.5 (2007). OpenSolaris fixed it
> in 2008. The commercial Solaris probably still misses it.
>
> Anyway, I think we should use pkg-config if available.
>
> Philippe: Did you already file a bug?
>
Not yet, but I'd be happy to. Do you mean ocaml or godi's bug tracker? I
must say I'm not exactly an expert on these issues so I'd understand if
you'd rather file the bug yourself, for clarity's sake.
ph.
>
> Gerd
>
> > Regards,
> > Adrien Nader
> >
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-13 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-13 11:59 Philippe Veber
2012-01-13 12:25 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-01-13 12:44 ` Philippe Veber
2012-01-13 14:21 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-01-13 13:18 ` Stéphane Glondu
2012-01-13 13:56 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-01-13 14:17 ` Philippe Veber
2012-01-13 15:22 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-01-13 16:13 ` Adrien
2012-01-13 16:47 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-01-13 16:53 ` Philippe Veber [this message]
2012-01-14 15:06 ` Philippe Veber
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