fix for libXrender and new renderproto
Eric Anholt
eric at anholt.net
Wed Sep 5 08:27:09 PDT 2007
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 19:39 -0700, Paul Bender wrote:
> Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 4, 2007 at 18:52:16 -0700, Paul Bender wrote:
> >
> >> In the latest renderproto tarball (0.9.3), the included render.h header
> >> file switched to using the XID defined type. XID is defined in X.h and
> >> Xlib.h.
> ^^^^^^
> Xdefs.h
>
> >> This causes a problem software that uses libXrender, because of the oder of
> >> included header files in Xrender.h. Xrender.h includes render.h before
> >> Xlib.h. As result, XID is not defined in time. The attached patch for
> >> libXrender fixes the problem by reordering the includes.
> >>
> > Maybe <X11/extensions/render.h> should #include <X11/X.h> itself, if it
> > needs the XID typedef?
>
> I thought about that. It would appear to make the most sense. However,
> there does not appear to be a consistent choice. In some cases, the
> files included by *proto include the header files from xproto that
> typedef things such as XID and CARD32. In some cases, they do not. As a
> result, I could not figure out the convention.
>
> If the convention is to include the appropriate xproto header files in
> header files included by other *proto header files, then X11/X.h should
> be included in render.h.
In the absence of a clear existing convention, I went ahead and just
pushed your original patch. Thanks!
--
Eric Anholt anholt at FreeBSD.org
eric at anholt.net eric.anholt at intel.com
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