[Gambas-devel] Build failed for Gambas 2.0.0

[MV]

Thank you very much for your prompt reply. I've been toying for a couple of 
hours with gambas, and it was worth the effort. I just thought it might be 
mildly funny to read it, as well as providing some hints for those unlucky 
enough to be trapped like I was.

> your libXext
> error needs more than the headers, in Debian you need to install
> libxtst-dev, and these are the files it contains:
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/libxtst-dev/filelist

I wasn't really clear : I had both the headers and the library itself. I 
certainly installed the dev part of the package. But for some reasons, this 
is not enough anymore. From the file you pointed me to, I was only missing 
the pkgconfig declaration. That really irritates me. The more the auto 
packagers try to be smart, the more one runs up in walls like this one, and 
those are completely arbitrary as otherwise the really needed bits are 
correctly installed, in the lib_path, and ldconfig knows them. Soon, we'll 
have config files pointing to helper files directing to list files containing 
references to variables holding relative paths to something we need to find 
the library. Not gambas' team fault, of course :-)

Best wishes for this new year,

-- 
Manuel Viet