Bug 110381 – x11-libs/libXfixes RDEPEND

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Spider (RETIRED) 2005-10-24 15:11:07 UTC]

well, the include files depend hard on x11-proto/fixesproto and xproto-7.0.1 due
to the headers :
#include <X11/extensions/xfixeswire.h>
#include <X11/Xfuncproto.h>

[Comment 1 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-10-24 16:10:21 UTC]

Header files (.h) are only required at compile time.

However, good catch on xproto, as this isn't even in their configure.ac.  Please
file a bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org regarding the missing xproto check
and post the link here.  Thanks :)

[Comment 2 Spider (RETIRED) 2005-10-24 16:59:58 UTC]

Well, header files that -refer- directly and unconditionally to other headers,
and where theese in turn include breakages -should- have an RDEPEND.

This is to make sure that builds that depend on this header ( fex. I explicitly
depend on libXfixes for a package) should actually work, without needing to
specify every include file that libXfixes refer to as well.

 

right now -all- things that depend on libXfixes need to also depend on xproto
-and- the wire protocol if they are even to compile.   This would be
unobtainable if our whole tree was to be built like that.



So, yes, even header dependencies are to be considered RDEPEND,  same way as
libraries are.

[Comment 3 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-10-24 18:42:47 UTC]

Ya, I see what you mean now.

Donnie, was proto intended to be this way upstream or should those lib header
files be fixed/pushed into proto?

[Comment 4 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-11-20 21:46:15 UTC]

This issue has been fixed.  I think the missing xproto issue was fixed upstream
as well, but I might be mistaken.

[Comment 5 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-11-20 21:46:29 UTC]

Marking fixed.