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.