Re: pkg/50039: erroneous dependency of print/xpdf on libXp

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50039; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/50039: erroneous dependency of print/xpdf on libXp
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 01:12:03 +0000

 On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 08:20:00AM +0000, J?rn Clausen wrote:
  >  It seems we are not done yet...
  >  
  >  Now building print/xpdf on NetBSD 7.0.1 fails with
  >  
  >  configure: WARNING: Couldn't find Motif
  >  configure: WARNING: -- You will be able to compile pdftops, pdftotext,
  >           pdfinfo, pdffonts, pdfdetach, and pdfimages, but not xpdf
  >           or pdftoppm
  >  
  >  
  >  If I understand the configure script correctly, there is actually a test 
  >  for Motif involving libXp ($Xp_LIBS something something), which now 
  >  probably fails.
  >  
  >  The configure script is provided by xpdf. I removed it and recreated it 
  >  using pkgsrc's autoconf, but the problem remains.
  >  
  >  So the correct fix is to change the test for Motif in autoconf? Or is 
  >  libXp simply a necessity when using Motif/LessTif, and the fix to 
  >  lesstif should have been the other way round?
 
 libXp is deprecated, obsolete, dead, and shouldn't be used by
 anything. It doesn't exist on -current and this problem doesn't arise
 (hasn't ever, that I can recall, either) so there must be something
 else going on. Or, must have been last August, anyway.
 
 This is what I get with 'make configure' for xpdf today, on -current,
 where no libXp exists anywhere on the system:
 
       :
    checking whether to use Xp library... maybe
    checking where to find the Xp header files... 
    checking X11/extensions/Print.h usability... no
    checking X11/extensions/Print.h presence... no
    checking for X11/extensions/Print.h... no
    not using Xp library
    checking whether to use Xt library... maybe
    checking where to find the Xt header files... 
    checking X11/Intrinsic.h usability... yes
    checking X11/Intrinsic.h presence... yes
    checking for X11/Intrinsic.h... yes
    checking for XtAppInitialize in -lXt... yes
    using Xt library
    checking whether to use Xm library... maybe
    checking where to find the Xm header files... 
    checking Xm/XmAll.h usability... yes
    checking Xm/XmAll.h presence... yes
    checking for Xm/XmAll.h... yes
    checking for XmCreateForm in -lXm... yes
    using Xm library
       :
 
 Does 7.0.1 still have libXp? Is the problem that the xpdf configure
 script finds part of it, thinks it should use it, but then fails
 because it isn't buildlinked?
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost