Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Angus> When did I post this mail? Feels like ages ago! > > Gnus tells me: 7 weeks, 2 days, 8 hours, 42 minutes, 16 seconds ago > (although the 16 seconds part may not be accurate by the time you > read this).
;-) (We seem to be forgetting the no smiley Friday rule.) >>> Concerning the X flags, I agree they should not be there. > > Angus> Is this an autotools problem or could we augment the INCLUDES > Angus> variable in the Makefile.ams? Looks to me like X includes > Angus> should be needed only in the xforms, qt2 and gtk directories > Angus> and in the last two only if compiling on a posix system. > > The code in configure.ac says: > > ### Check for X libraries > AC_PATH_XTRA > case $have_x in > yes) LIBS="$X_PRE_LIBS $LIBS $X_LIBS -lX11 $X_EXTRA_LIBS" > CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $X_CFLAGS";; > esac > > The setting of CPPFLAGS is obviously not good, but the code for the > frontend relies on having everything available, I guess. Sure, but couldn't the individual Makefile.ams have something like INCLUDES = $(BOOST_INCLUDES) @X_CFLAGS@ so only those Makefile.ams that actually need the X includes use 'em? -- Angus
