[Bug 37578] New: Request for Enhancement: please add libXext as a dependency

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37578

            Bug ID: 37578
           Summary: Request for Enhancement: please add libXext as a
                    dependency
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.30
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: ToddAndMargo at zoho.com
      Distribution: ---

Request for Enhancement:

It about killed my trying to compile Wine-1.7.30 (I conquered).  In the
"./configure" phase, Wine threw the following error:

wine-1.7.30]# ./configure --disable-win64
configure: WARNING: libpng 32-bit development files not found, PNG won't be
supported.

Only thing was that libpng was actually installed:
# rpm -qa \*libpng\* | grep -i i686
libpng-devel-1.2.49-1.el6_2.i686
libpng-1.2.49-1.el6_2.i686

The error was bogus reporting from Wine "./configure".  The actual problem was
that libpng had a dependance on zlib.  "yum install zlib-devel.i686" fixed the
bogus error from Wine.

This bogus error was originally reported to Wine on:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37534

Their response was that it was a dependency:
   http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
       "libpng is available as ANSI C (C89) source code and requires zlib
        1.0.4 or later (1.2.5 or later recommended for performance and security
        reasons)."

So I reported it to Red Hat on:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162842

Their response was:
      You were probably not able to install libpng without zlib, but of 
      course you were able to install libpng and libpng-devel without
      zlib-devel - but this is pretty much expected. Guidelines are 
      even stricter, explicit requirements for library packages are 
      forbidden (
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires
      - Red Hat Enterprise Linux follows Fedora packaging guidelines
      with just very few exceptions ).

So, would you guys please consider putting the dependency in yourself, so as to
keep the next poor sod who is trying to ./configure wine from going out of his
mind and to keep you guys from having to endlessly answer this question over on
the forums

Many thanks,
-T

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