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2012-08-29

Linker Errors When Building Xlock on Debian

When building xlockmore (version 5.39) on one of my Debian boxes I encountered two linker issues, one with libxext, the other with libcrypt. Both issues persisted even after running configure with the --without-ext and --without-crypt options. WTF?! Why would anyone with at least half a brain provide --without-FEATURE options for apparently required features?

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