Re: xfree won't compile

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:15:38PM +0100, Claes Wallin wrote:
> I tried this, and found something weird:
> 
> Xft depends on imake-4, which wouldn't install because 
> 'work/xc/config/date.def' and 'version.def' were dead links. I simply 
> linked them to files with suitable names (xc/.../hw/xf86Date.h, 
> xf86Version.h), and it installed just fine.
> 
> How can internal softlinks in the X source archives point the wrong way?

Because XFree86 can't detect the OS version when CCVER=gcc3 is set.

Joerg

>    /Clacke