Re: gnustep back compile problem

[David Chisnall]

On 7 Jan 2009, at 18:10, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> The shape extension should be part of Xext and we already check for  
> that
> in our configure script. Maybe Ubuntu packages things up differently  
> or
> our check isn't sufficient.
> Typing something like this at the prompt should tell you where the  
> file
> finally came from:
>
> dlocate /usr/include/X11/extensions/shape.h
>
> We could even try to get GNUstep working without that extension, this
> will just require some more configuration parameters. Anybody  
> willing to
> take this?

The shape extension is a pretty basic part of X11.  I don't think I've  
seen an X server in over a decade that didn't support it.  XFixes  
makes it a lot simpler to use though and allows clipping lists to be  
stored on the server as an opaque type, and it's largely unrequired  
with the composite extension.  What does GNUstep use the shape  
extension for?  I don't think I've seen any GNUstep apps with holes in  
windows, and haven't seen anything in GORM for creating them.

David