[M3devel] trouble installing on a Debian lenny system.

[Tony Hosking]

Generally, you'll need all dev packages with CM3.

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On Apr 7, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Olaf Wagner wrote:

> Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:29:48AM -0400, Tony Hosking wrote:
>>> You should have a link from libXaw.so, etc.
>>
>> It turns out that link was in the package libXaw7-dev, which was  
>> missing
>> on both my 64- and 32-bit systems.
>
> This sounds broken to me.
>
> M3 has been changed some time ago to look for shared objects instead  
> of
> archives, as the latter are often not installed on modern systems, but
> come only as part of development packages.
>
> But there must be a simple unique name for the resource; we cannot
> per default refer to libXaw.so.7.0 or similar, since this would
> need more updates and maintenance and would break if another version
> is actually installed.
>
> So I don't see a reason for this kind of link to be in the development
> packages. Should we report this as a bug?
>
> Olaf
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