Comment 1 for bug 28084

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:42:13 +0100
From: Kurt Roeckx <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: gnome-libs: FTBFS: Fails to find the X paths.

Package: gnome-libs
Version: 1.4.2-28
Severity: serious

Hi,

Your package is failing to build with the following error:
checking for X... no
[...]
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -Wall -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -o gnome-moz-remote gnome-moz-remote.o libgnome.la ../support/libgnomesupport.la -L/usr/lib -lesd -laudiofile -lm -L/usr/lib -laudiofile -lm -ldb-3 -L/usr/lib -lglib -lXext -lX11 -lz -lm
gcc -Wall -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -o .libs/gnome-moz-remote gnome-moz-remote.o ./.libs/libgnome.so ../support/.libs/libgnomesupport.so -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/libesd.so -lm /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so -lm -ldb-3 /usr/lib/libglib.so -lXext -lX11 -lz -lm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [gnome-moz-remote] Error 1

This can be solved in 2 ways:
- Add a build dependency on libxt-dev
- Rebuild the configure script with debian's autoconf, since it
  fixes the problem that the macro's check for something in
  libxt-dev. Please also see
  /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz in that case
  on how to avoid timestamp skew issues.

Kurt