[GEM-dev] Compiling Vertex Arrays on Linux

[B. Bogart]

Hey Johannes,

I hope you can help me with this.

I'm trying to compile the vertex branch of Gem but the compile fails with:

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bbogart/pd-stuff/Gem.vertex/src/openGL'
rm -f Gem.pd_linux *~
make -C Base -f ..//Makefile.subdir -j4
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bbogart/pd-stuff/Gem.vertex/src/Base'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target
`/usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions/xf86vmode.h', needed by
`GemWinCreateXWin.d'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bbogart/pd-stuff/Gem.vertex/src/Base'
make: *** [Base] Error 2

indeed there is no such file xf86vmode.h on my system.

According to the debian package search the package that provides that
header is: xlibs-static-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1

I have xlibs-static-dev installed:

||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  xlibs-static-d 6.8.2.dfsg.1-1 X Window System client library
development f

but it only provides the following extension headers:

/usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions/bigreqstr.h
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions/xf86bigfont.h
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions/xf86bigfstr.h

I tried to install the version 4.3.0 of the static libs but apt says my
other packages depend on the newer version:

libs-static-dev:
 libxinerama-dev conflicts with xlibs-static-dev (<< 6.8.1-0ubuntu1)
  xlibs-static-dev (version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing
/home/bbogart/Desktop/Downloads/xlibs-static-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1_i386.deb
(--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing xlibs-static-dev
Errors were encountered while processing:

Note I have no unbuntu repositories on my machine, I guess those are taken
from ubuntu and put into sarge.

Why the new version of xlibs-static-dev does not provide the same headers
I have no idea. What is this header for and how could I disable it?

Thanks.
b.