rawhide report: 20060207 changes

[John Ellson]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 03:34 -0500, Build System wrote:
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>> New package gnome-python2-desktop
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>> autoconf-2.59-6
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>> * Mon Feb 06 2006 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.de> 2.59-6
>> - check for Xlib.h instead of Intrinsic.h to find X11 headers
>>   (#176379)
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> Not necessarily a good idea, because this renders FC generated configure
> scripts unnecessarily incompatible to FSF autoconf generated ones.
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> Furthermore, the whole idea of checking for "X11 headers" is arguable,
> because the concept of common directories for "X11-includes/libraries"
> doesn't apply anymore with modular X anymore. Instead, we now have a
> "set of X11 devel packages", which just "happen to be installed to a
> common prefix".
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> I would eagerly plea to revert this change.
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> Ralf
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The AC_PATH_XTRA macro doesn't work today.  Is that a result of this change?

John