[M3devel] trouble installing on a Debian lenny system.

[Tony Hosking]

Perhaps you're right.

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On Apr 7, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Olaf Wagner wrote:

> Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:
>
>> Generally, you'll need all dev packages with CM3.
>
> Hm 8-/ Seems I'm not really up-to-date here...
>
> Olaf
>
>> Antony Hosking | Associate Professor | Computer Science | Purdue   
>> University
>> 305 N. University Street | West Lafayette | IN 47907 | USA
>> Office +1 765 494 6001 | Mobile +1 765 427 5484
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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