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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kpovmodeler - missing check for libXi?
From:       "Gary L. Greene, Jr." <greeneg () tolharadys ! net>
Date:       2007-01-10 18:34:51
Message-ID: 200701101334.51828.greeneg () tolharadys ! net
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On Wednesday 10 January 2007 13:20, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Gary L. Greene, Jr. wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 January 2007 12:19, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >> Am I doing something wrong, or are the configure checks just generally
> >> confused by installation of <package> but not <package>-devel? (It seems
> >> like for several other packages, however, configure correctly complained
> >> when <package>-devel was missing even if <pacakge> was installed...)
> >
> > Because the way that RPMs are generally created, if you wish to build
> > software that needs headers and libraries for compilation, you will need
> > to install the devel packages.
>
> I wasn't born yesterday. :-) But I fail to see what that has to do with
> my question, which was /why does this confuse configure?/...
>
> In particular, why do libXi and poppler-qt confuse configure in this
> manner when I am pretty sure configure has Done The Right Thing(tm) in
> other instances of <package> installed but not <package>-devel.

From what I recall most of these checks look for only the librarys, and not 
the headers, which IMNSHO would be a better way to assure that the proper 
files are installed.

-- 
Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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