Comment 3 for bug 28084

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:16:59 -0800
From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <email address hidden>
To: Kurt Roeckx <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#346259: gnome-libs: FTBFS: Fails to find the X paths.

Kurt Roeckx <email address hidden> writes:

> 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.

Obviously adding a spurious depedency is not the best idea.

Since this is a legacy package, I'd like to avoid the hassle of your
second approach. Fortunately there's a third, which is to give
--x-includes and --x-libraries on the configure invocation.

Thomas