[BUG?] libxrender-dev checking is missing

Miguel Ojeda miguel.ojeda.sandonis at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 23:49:33 GMT 2009


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Allen Winter <winter at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 2:44:21 pm Miguel Ojeda wrote:
>> Hi KDE-devs!
>>
>> For kdelibs-4.2.0/kfile/kfilepreviewgenerator.cpp, libxrender-dev is needed;
>> however, the configure script does not seem to warn about that it is missing.
>>
>> Moreover, at lines 724~726, XRender*() calls are undefined while linking,
>> so I assume that the library is not being properly linked as the configure
>> script does not seem to care about it.
>>
>> Please review this issue if it is not my fault. Thank you for KDE 4.2! :)
>>
>> PS: Please CC me, I'm not subscribed.
>>
> We discussed this the other day in the thread "Missing cmake check for Xrender".
>
> I'm was waiting for someone to change kfilepreviewgenerator.cpp so that
> it compiles without XRender*(). Since nobody has volunteered to do that
> after several requests over the past year, I'll make an educated guess
> and do it myself.
>

Nice then. I hope it is solved soon.




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