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["George J. Sherwood" <pilot AT beernabeer.com>]

I was trying to update gossip to version 0.8 and I found it won't build.
I tried to build gossip 0.7.8 and it fails also.  I last build gossip in
September, so something has changed on both my computers since that
time.  It is failing like this:

checking for XScreenSaverRegister in -lXext... no
checking for XScreenSaverRegister in -lXss... no
configure: error: Couldn't find XScreenSaver extension.


gaim goes through the same checks but it works.  From a build of gaim
today:

checking for XScreenSaverRegister in -lXext... no
checking for XScreenSaverRegister in -lXss... yes


Why would these be different?  Here is what the configure.in file for
gossip looks like:

dnl -----------------------------------------------------------

dnl Check for XScreenSaver
old_LIBS="$LIBS"
old_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
LIBS="$LIBS -L$x_libraries $GOSSIP_LIBS"
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$x_includes $GOSSIP_CFLAGS"
XSS_LIBS="no"
XSS_HEADERS="no"
AC_CHECK_LIB(Xext, XScreenSaverRegister,[XSS_LIBS="-L
$x_libraries"],[],[-lX11 -lXex$
AC_CHECK_LIB(Xss, XScreenSaverRegister,[XSS_LIBS="-L$x_libraries
-lXss"],[],[-lX11 $
if test \! "$XSS_LIBS" = "no"; then
   AC_TRY_COMPILE([
#include <X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h>
                ],[],[enable_xss=no],[
                AC_DEFINE(USE_SCREENSAVER, 1, [Define if we're using
XScreenSaver.])
                ])
else
    XSS_LIBS=""
    enable_xss=no
fi
LIBS="$old_LIBS"
CFLAGS="$old_CFLAGS"

if test "x$enable_xss" = "xno"; then
  AC_MSG_ERROR([Couldn't find XScreenSaver extension.])
fi
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and the configure.ac file from gaim:
dnl
#######################################################################
dnl # Check for XScreenSaver
dnl
#######################################################################
if test "x$enable_xss" = "xyes" ; then
        old_LIBS="$LIBS"
        LIBS="$LIBS $GTK_LIBS $x_libpath_add"
        XSS_LIBS="no"
        XSS_HEADERS="no"
        AC_CHECK_LIB(Xext, XScreenSaverRegister,[XSS_LIBS="$X_LIBS
$X_PRE_LIBS -lX11 -lXext $X_EX$
        AC_CHECK_LIB(Xss, XScreenSaverRegister,[XSS_LIBS="$X_LIBS
$X_PRE_LIBS -lX11 -lXext $X_LIB$
        if test \! "$XSS_LIBS" = "no"; then
                oldCPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
                CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$x_includes"
                AC_TRY_COMPILE([
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h>
                                ],[],[
                                AC_DEFINE(USE_SCREENSAVER, 1, [Define if
we're using XScreenSaver$
                                )
                CPPFLAGS="$oldCPPFLAGS"
        else
               XSS_LIBS=""
               enable_xss=no
        fi
        LIBS="$old_LIBS"
else
        XSS_LIBS=""
        enable_xss=no
fi
AC_SUBST(XSS_LIBS)

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One of my computers has xfree86 and the other xorg.  Both fail the same
way.  Sorry for the long message.  Any ideas?

George Sherwood
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