pkg-config files list protos when not required
Julien Cristau
jcristau at debian.org
Sat Jan 9 13:48:55 PST 2010
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 13:42:25 -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> Why do the pkg-config files still report that the protos are
> dependencies of the Xlib libraries? Shouldn't that have been removed
> with the big proto/Xlib cleanup prior to the last Katamari? Was this
> just overlooked or intentional? I don't see any reason why a userland
> application building against libX11 should require xproto.
>
I can't see how you could ever build an xlib app without having xproto
installed. For a start, <X11/Xlib.h> needs <X11/Xfuncproto.h> and
<X11/Xosdefs.h>. What problem are you trying to solve?
Cheers,
Julien
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