makedepend dependency on xproto?

Jeffrey Walton noloader at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 10:57:16 UTC 2022


On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 9:20 PM Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/18/22 17:54, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > 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>

Thanks Alan.

That was not painful at all. For some reason I thought I was going
down a rabbit hole.

Jeff


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