an additional requirement on kdelibs

Simon Hausmann hausmann at kde.org
Tue Mar 13 17:12:37 GMT 2007


On Tuesday 13 March 2007 18:04:57 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Dirk Mueller wrote:
> >if you want to compile kdelibs on X11 you better have xorg-x11-devel
> > installed (which will pull in libexpat-devel unless your distribution
> > is broken).
>
> It doesn't on Mandriva and kdelibs builds just fine.
>
> Unless the X11 public headers are including libexpat headers, there's no
> reason for the dependency (as long as we're talking about shared
> libraries; it breaks down for static ones).
>
> X.org 7.2

It's libfontconfig that depends on libexpat (or libxml if it can't find 
libexpat).


Simon
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