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Michel...

Post by hgm »

Michel wrote:
It seems you are missing the xaw package
This exposes a bug in configure.ac.

Configure should have detected the missing xaw header files and print an appropriate diagnostic.

I think a long time ago I submitted a patch to fix this.
Arun tried to contact you about this, but he was not successful.
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Post by Michel »

Well I don't quite remember what happened. At one point we were communicating about a release of xboard and I think I emailed you a version with a newly generated configure.ac which tried to sort out the xaw/xaw3d mess. Perhaps it didn't behave as expected. In any case I have long since deleted all this.

But checking if a certain header file or library is present in configure.ac
is quite trivial (AC_CHECK_HEADERS, AC_CHECK_LIB).