Le 13 janvier 2012 17:47, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> a écrit :

> Am Freitag, den 13.01.2012, 17:13 +0100 schrieb Adrien:
> > On 13/01/2012, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, den 13.01.2012, 15:17 +0100 schrieb Philippe Veber:
> > >> pveber@gesundheit:~/usr/src/ocaml-3.12.1$ pkg-config --libs x11
> > >> -lX11
> > >
> > > Traditionally, X11 came with its own system called imake, which is a
> > > preprocessor for makefiles. If there is now pkg-config support, this is
> > > very new, or an extension by the distributor.
> >
> > I don't know how old this would be but it's upstream at least in
> libX11-1.4.2.
>
> So far I can trace it the file x11.pc appeared in xorg's version of X.
> So quite a time ago. Note that especially commercial OS are behind when
> it comes to renewing X11. E.g. I saw complaints that MacOS 10.4 did not
> ship it, and it was first available in 10.5 (2007). OpenSolaris fixed it
> in 2008. The commercial Solaris probably still misses it.
>
> Anyway, I think we should use pkg-config if available.
>
> Philippe: Did you already file a bug?
>
Not yet, but I'd be happy to. Do you mean ocaml or godi's bug tracker? I
must say I'm not exactly an expert on these issues so I'd understand if
you'd rather file the bug yourself, for clarity's sake.

ph.



>
> Gerd
>
> > Regards,
> > Adrien Nader
> >
>
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