[XForms] Re: [PATCH] Simplify configure.ac

Angus Leeming angus.leeming at btopenworld.com
Wed Sep 10 14:09:03 EDT 2003


On Wednesday 10 September 2003 5:02 pm, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> To subscribers of the xforms list
>
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes at inria.fr> wrote:
> > support would mean that applications like LyX would depend on GL
> > support, which is stupid. An alternative would be to make separate
> > xforms and xforms-gl rpms, but this is a bit heavy IMO.
>
> This is what I do for Debian anyway:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libforms1.html
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libformsgl1.html
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libdevel/libforms-dev.html
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/libformsgl-dev.html
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/libforms-bin.html

Any reason why you don't split up xforms and xforms-image?

Is making dep packages automatically just a case of adding the correct 
Makefile target and leaving the computer to do its stuff? If so, feel free to 
submit a patch.

Angus




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