how can one build X without libxcb, or libxcb without python, or python without tcl/tk, or tcl/tk without X ?

[matti christensen]

yes - i'm sure you know what you are doing and also are familiar with  
main stream systems

it just so happens that i'm really aschetic and am now building  
environment for Lemote Fuloong 2F

my distributions have been like early Slackware ( beginning from  
kernel 1.2.13 ), later Core-Linux ( 2.4.n ) and after that Crux --  
which i've installed as minimal as possible to be able to compile the  
stuff i need myself ... that is to say that i certainly won't install  
a single binary which i know i newer need, or accept init script  
spaghetti of many systems, etc.

sometimes it is rather frustrating, from my humble point of view, to  
note that there are many ways of translating the word 'simple' - i  
think simple is something that even i'm able to understand and manage...

no need to go on with this issue - we'll live with it

/mc


Quoting Corbin Simpson <mostawesomedude at gmail.com>:

> I know I'm biased, but Python is generally available on systems. RPM-based
> systems and Gentoo require it, and most other distros need it in their base
> layout. (Slack might be the exception here.)
>
> I'm deeply sorry that you don't like Python, but it's not a dependency
> anybody feels like working around.
>
> Sending from a mobile, pardon the brevity. ~ C.
> On Feb 7, 2011 7:31 AM, "matti christensen" <mattic at iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> yes - well
>>
>> i am afraid and don't like snakes. i downloaded libX 1.3.2 ....
>>
>> i really hope you get rid of such dependency to something that may or
>> may not be in one's system = keep to basics
>>
>> /mc
>>
>>
>> Quoting Peter Harris <pharris at opentext.com>:
>>
>>> On 2011-02-05 15:55, matti christensen wrote:
>>>> - it appears to me that i'm not able to compile libxcb 1.7 without
>>>> Python ( which i do not need or want on my system )
>>>
>>> You only need Python to compile; you do not need it to run libxcb.
>>>
>>> Feel free to remove python when you are done, or cross-compile from
>>> another system.
>>>
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>>
>> keep-IT-simple
>>
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