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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] freeglut fails to compile because X11/extensions/XInput.h not found
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:18:55
Message-Id: 200912180017.19867.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] freeglut fails to compile because X11/extensions/XInput.h not found by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 On Thursday 17 December 2009 19:30:32 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
2 > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > On Thursday 17 December 2009 14:09:37 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
4 > > > Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the package which
5 > > > used to contain this file no longer does -- any ideas on how to
6 > > > proceed?
7 > > >
8 > > > Thanks.
9 > >
10 > > nazgul ~ # locate XInput.h
11 > > /usr/include/X11/extensions/XInput.h
12 > > nazgul ~ # equery belongs `locate XInput.h`
13 > > * Searching for /usr/include/X11/extensions/XInput.h ...
14 > > x11-libs/libXi-1.3 (/usr/include/X11/extensions/XInput.h)
15 >
16 > However the newer version of this package has eliminated this file --
17 > this is my whole problem. Now I re emerged the package which had an
18 > update and how its here. I guess portage did things in the wrong order
19 > or something.
20 >
21 > Thanks.
22 >
23
24 Hmm. Odd. Apparently, you are suffering from one or more of the following:
25
26 solar flares
27 cosmic rays
28 a quantum level event
29 leprechauns
30 tooth fairies
31 jubbjubb monsters
32
33
34 {well, it's as good as any other explanation :-) }
35 --
36 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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