Missing Library File After GCompris Compilation

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le dimanche 07 mars 2010 à 03:51 +0200, Tamer Alkhouli a écrit :
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> I was trying to modify one of the GCompris activities
> (memory-activity), and after bundling the compiled code and trying to
> install it using the sugar-install-bundle command on the XO, I got an
>  error message telling me that libxcb-render-util.so.0 was missing.
> When I copied that file to /usr/lib/ everything worked just fine. Any
> idea why this problem showed in the first place? And how to fix it
> permanently? Note that the non-modified GCompris activity doesn't need
> that  file.

Well each library on which we depend brings its own dependency to us.

It means that if you compile on a system were X depends on the library
libxcb-render then our gcompris binary will require it. But if this
library is not present on a given system then GCompris won't start at
all because GNU/Linux expect all dynamic libraries required by a binary
to be present.

To avoid this situation, all GNU/Linux distribution have a packaging
system in place.

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