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

[Matthieu Herrb]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:40:44AM -0500, Peter Harris wrote:
> On 2011-02-07 10:31, matti christensen wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Python isn't my favourite language either, but it's much better than the
> previous XSLT implementation. I don't think it's too much of a burden to
> expect python on a build machine.

It's a pain on *BSD where python is not part of the base system. To be
able to let users build X on a base system with no additional packages
installed, we provide pre-generated c-code for xcb. 

So only developers who want to touch the xml files need to install
python.

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Matthieu Herrb