[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 325545] New: Please check for -lX11 in AC_PATH_XTRA

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           Summary: Please check for -lX11 in AC_PATH_XTRA
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: 0.10.0
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: Normal
         Component: packages
        AssignedTo: thomas at apestaart.org
        ReportedBy: lool+gnome at via.ecp.fr
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: Unspecified
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


Hi,

I don't know what distribution is used to "make dist" gstreamer modules, but it
would be nice if the resulting configure script would test for -lX11 instead of
-lXt.

Debian has a patch to make AC_PATH_XTRA more sane and check for -lX11 instead
of -lXt:
autoconf (2.59a-4) unstable; urgency=low 

  * AC_PATH_X now checks for X11/Xlib.h and XrmInitialize (X proper)
    rather than X11/Intrinsic.h and XtMalloc (Xt).  Thanks to Kurt Roeckx,
    Thomas Dickey, and Paul Eggert.  Closes: #327655.

(See http://bugs.debian.org/327655.)

This is now in autoconf CVS:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/autoconf/lib/autoconf/libs.m4?root=autoconf&view=log

I don't know if there's an easy way to override AC_PATH_XTRA/AC_PATH_X locally
on the system where gstreamer is make disted.

With the patch, you can also explicitely pass parameters to AC_PATH_X and
AC_PATH_XTRA to check for specific X11 libs and functions.

Cheers,


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