makedepend dependency on xproto?

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Jan 19 02:20:44 UTC 2022


On 1/18/22 17:54, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Everyone/Alan,
> 
> This should be the last question. I'm building makedepend on an old
> PowerMac with OS X 10.5. An older OpenSSL needs it.
> 
> Configure is failing:
> 
>    checking for X... no
>    configure: error: Package requirements (xproto >= 7.0.17) were not met:
>    No package 'xproto' found
>    Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>    installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> 
> I tried configururing --without-xproto with no joy.
> 
> Before I dive too deep into this... Does makedepend really need X11 gear?

Yes, xproto is just header files, and makedepend includes 2 of them:

#include <X11/Xos.h>
#include <X11/Xfuncproto.h>

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