[Xcb] another "no rule to make target `xproto.c'"

Ian Osgood iano at quirkster.com
Fri Jul 7 07:32:09 PDT 2006


On Jul 7, 2006, at 6:58 AM, Alex A. Schmidt wrote:

>> Please check whether this patch fixes your build.
>
> Yes, it works. Thanks.

Commited.  I guess we haven't had a tester on Solaris for a while.


 > > Josh Triplett said:
>>>
>>> This occurs intentionally; these files get automatically  
>>> generated from
>>> XML descriptions of the X Window System protocol contained in the
>>> xcb-proto package.  XCB ships the files generated, but a clean will
>>> remove them and a rebuild should regenerate them.
>>>
>>> That said, perhaps we should treat those source files like  
>>> automake and
>>> autoconf output, assume that an end-user compiling the software  
>>> might
>>> not have xsltproc, and move the removal of those source files to  
>>> "make
>>> maintainer-clean".
>>
>> Adding a test for xsltproc must be done.
>>
>> Vincent
>
> How is xproto.c to be regenerated from xsltproc? Will this be done
> automatically by "configure" then?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex

By make, yes.  See xcb/src/Makefile.am, the %.h and %.c rules at the  
end.

Ian


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