Bug 212298 – x11-libs/libX11 & x11-libs/libXt 'cpp' test breaks on IRIX

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description Stuart Shelton 2008-03-04 17:16:50 UTC]

The configure script for libX11 tries to get a clean environment with the (GNU?) '-undef' option to cpp - which doesn't exist on IRIX.

This causes the build to error-out.  Simply reversing the sense of this test allows the build to complete successfully, though - and I can't see any ill affects of having a few additional values defined.

(It looks as if 'cpp' is only used for building the man-pages in any case, and there's a comment in the configure script stating that their method of testing cpp is probably a hack ;)

[Comment 1 Stuart Shelton 2008-03-11 18:12:14 UTC]

... still a problem in libX11-1.1.4, same fix still works.

[Comment 2 Stuart Shelton 2008-03-12 12:10:49 UTC]

x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5 affected too

[Comment 3 Stuart Shelton 2009-02-02 11:16:21 UTC]

Created attachment 180680 [details, diff]
Patch to allow libX11 to build on compilers lacking '-undef' and/or '-traditional'

Preserve warning, but remove erroneous abort from libX11.

[Comment 4 Fabian Groffen 2009-10-25 09:37:38 UTC]

I can't find neither of these symbols in the configure files of recent libX11, so I assume upstream has fixed this problem.

[Comment 5 Stuart Shelton 2009-10-29 12:00:23 UTC]

Whether through IRIX-MIPSpro-wrapper or through (hopefully) upstream changes, the latest libX11 and libXt build cleanly! :D