[crossfire] GTK client compilation issue w/ newer autotools

[David McIlwraith]

Hi,

Thanks. Seems that is the case here. X libraries are not listed in the
gtk+-2.0.pc file for some reason.

Regards,
- David McIlwraith <2c93e8f1 at gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Mark Wedel <mwedel at sonic.net> wrote:
> On 02/14/12 04:49 PM, David McIlwraith wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> X_LIBS does not appear to include libX11 with bleeding-edge auto*
>> tools; I am not sure if this is an issue with the client source itself
>> or a problem elsewhere. Nonetheless, on svn r16896 (up-to-date local
>> ArchLinux [x86_64] system), configure.ac must be modified such that
>> -lX11 is added in a similar vein to Xext. Noting that I have not
>> encountered this issue before when packaging the client, I am unsure
>> as to where the problem lies -- does anyone have any insight here?
>
>
>  Does pkg-config exist on the system (it may not - it seems like every few
> years yet a new method of determine package information comes out).
>
>  It would be interesting to see what 'pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0' comes back
> with - that should provide the libraries that gtk+ needs.  For example, on
> my solaris system, I get:
>
> pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0
> -R/usr/lib -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lsecdb -ltsol -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0
> -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lXext -lXrender
> -lXinerama -lXi -lXrandr -lXcursor -lXcomposite -lXdamage -lgio-2.0 -lXfixes
> -lcairo -lX11 -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0
> -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lpthread -lglib-2.0
>
>  Note that -X11 (along with a bunch of other X libraries) is there.
>
>  If pkg-config is not listing those libraries, I would suggest some problem
> with the distribution related to pkg-config not reporting correct
> information. If that information is there, and for some reason the configure
> is not using it, that would require more investigation.