Subject: bug#2285: 23.0.90; indeterminate X11 "standard dirs"

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:06:15 -0500

Peter Dyballa <[email-masked]> writes:

> It once (beginning of October 2008) was the standard to report these
> details:
>
>   Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/X11R6/include
>   Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11R6/lib

That's strange.  According to vc-annotate, this part of the configure
code has not changed in about 10 years.

> When I pass --x-includes=/opt/local/include --x-libraries=/opt/local/
> lib to configure it at least reports:
>
>   Where do we find X Windows header files? /opt/local/include
>   Where do we find X Windows libraries? /opt/local/lib

Yes, I know.  In this case, the arguments you pass are directly stored
and reported.