Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (232 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

On 20.02.2012 12:38, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Stephan Kulow wrote:
>
> > For most packages this is no problem, but in some cases this creates a 
> > problem. The situation is this:
> >
> > vim.spec requires gtk2-devel, which in return requires pkgconfig(xft). 
> > Before the xorg libs split, this pkgconfig require dragged in all other 
> > XOrg libraries too and vim build was free to choose. Now there is only 
> > Xft and the libraries below it in the buildroot and vim fails.
> >
> > You have two options to fix the build, which both come down to: fix your
> > build requires to require what you need to build.
> >
> > Either use the correct form (works on >= 11.4 afaik)
> > BuildRequires: pkgconfig(xt)
> >
> > or simulate the old way in dragging all X libs in:
> > BuildRequires: xorg-x11-devel
>
> Is it really meaningful to have gtk2-devel installed, but not 
> xorg-x11-devel?  I.e. why what that requires removed (it still existed in 
> 11.3)?
gtk2-devel requires that X libs that are necessary to develop GTK2
applications - which is the right thing to do.

That vim needs Xt headers additionally is a vim problem, not a GTK problem.

Greetings, Stephan



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