Another packaging error? [Attn: Xaw3d maintainer]

[Dr. Volker Zell]

>>>>> Angelo Graziosi writes:

    > Installing libXaw3d-devel causes the same problem described here [1]
    > it installs in /usr/include/X11 but the package xorg-x11-devel need
    > /usr/include/X11 be a link to ../X11R6/include/X11.

    > How do we solve this contradiction?

In the long run the /usr/X11R6 hierarchy will vanish. This was discussed
long ago.

    > It looks to me that after installing libXft-devel and libXaw3d-devel,
    > the build environment for X applications is a little compromised.

X11 build scripts which need the X11 headers can simply use -I/usr/X11R6/include.

Or you can symlink /usr/X11R6/include/X11/* to /usr/include/X11.

    > Cheers,
    >    Angelo.

Ciao
  Volker

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