makedepend

Am 19. Mar, 2001 schwäzte Marc Chung so:

> While compiling fetchmail, running ``make'' biffed the process and spat
> out an error basically saying that it couldn't find ``makedepend''
>
> A search indicated that ``makedepend'' was located in some X-devel

xlib6g-dev in stable, moved to xutils in testing. Not too much in there,
except it does depend on xlib6g. I'd suggest dropping in a bug with
severity wishlist to have makedepend not depend on any X packages. Also
look at the docs in /usr/share/doc/<package_name>. Looks like imake and
xmkmf depend on xlibs-dev. makedepend probably needs them :(.

> package. I had hoped to keep the box X free, pun intended. Is there some
> work around this? Or does it really matter, and should I just apt-get
> whatever I need?

yeah:

apt-get install fetchmail # ;-)

Other than that or redoing the package, though, I think you're stuck. Kind
of stupid for fetchmail to depend on X stuff. Then again, if makedepend
really kicks butt, then the sucky part is that makedepend depends on X :).

> I'm running Debian, potato, pretty much stock-installed stuff. I'm
> finding myself spending a lot more time on fixing dependency issues, and
> being the victim of licensing issues (such as Pine and KDE), rather than
> opening myself up to a (gn)ew experience, pun also intended. :)

The pine license issue sucks. It's a shame cuz I love pine. I wanted to
fly up to UW to kick their butts, but was afraid that if any natural
disasters happened m$ would blame them on me :).

The KDE licensing stuff is finally resolved, but we haven't yet had
another stable release. A bunch of the KDE stuff is in testing and there's
even more in unstable.

ciao,

der.hans
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