michael, you should copy your replies to the bug report, so that other peoples can read them. (I did this for this one)
On 28/02/2005-17:57, michael bane wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 17:13 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On 28/02/2005-17:06, michael wrote: > > > > > Package: libX11-6 > > > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 > > > Severity: grave > > > Tags: patch > > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > > > On my system I had to put these symbolic links > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 28 14:47 libXpm.so -> libXpm.so.4 > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 28 13:48 libXext.so -> libXext.so.6 > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 28 12:59 libX11.so -> libX11.so.6 > > > in order for `ld` to accept -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXpm -lXext -lX11 > > > > > Hi, > > > > this is not a bug, the .so symlinks are provided by the -dev packages > > (libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxpm-dev), as they are not needed at > > runtime. They are not, and should not be, included in the library > > packages themselves. > > Closing this spurious bug report. > > > > Regards, > > Julien > > Julien - hope you don't mind a quick "thanks for prompt reply"! I didn't > realise the above so is it worth amending the libX11 and libX11-dev doc > (package info) to say if you require to link against X11 etc you need > the -dev package too? > > Cheers, Michael > Personally, I think it's fairly obvious you need the devel package when you want to use a library for development, but as I'm not the package maintainer, I'm not the one you should try to convince :) Regards, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
