Re: [Xen-users] x11 required by xen? seems no, but...

["Henning Sprang" <henning_sprang@xxxxxx>]

On 1/11/07, Daniele Palumbo <daniele@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> i have a gentoo, and i am installing it from ebuild in bug 151764:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151764
Don't understand what this bug report about gentoo people naghging the
developers to get newer versions faster has to do with your problem
below - please don't post so many unneccessary information. Thanks.

> [...]
> Checking check_x11_devel:
>  *** Check for x11 headers FAILED
Seems like the gentoo ebuild has an error because it hasn't the right
dependencies :)

> this is the check:
> http://lxr.xensource.com/lxr/source/tools/check/check_x11_devel
>
> as you can see, there is no "if i must compile X, than".
> it is a do or die.
>
> but, chmodding it to 644, the compilation is ok.
You chmod what?

Probably, that way, your compile is O.K., but aou will be lacking some features.
In previous versions, some features were just silently left ou when
not having the dependencies,(which were nowhere dosucmented)
Now, the developers seem to get started doing better dependency
checks, but I agree that they are still on their way, maybe half
through.

A decent ./configure script, with a decent help that checks and
informs ablout the right dependencies and their purpose is what is
needed here to let people easier build xen on their own and be
informwed about must have and optional dependencies, at the beginning
of a build, not only when sometime in the middle of using Xen a
feature is lacking, and not in the way like you experience it
currently - it's said you don't need X, but hte libs are required, and
you can even make it to build without it.

> the question is:
> why?
Must have something to do with the possibilities of a framebuffer GUI
for domU's, or the hvm graphical console support - ask on xen-devel
for details.

Henning

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