<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small">Back in March 2013 a problem appeared in the Arch Linux package distribution of Erlang R16B01. The package building procedure was not building the two .so files that are part of the wx package, as described in the Arch bug:</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34201">https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34201</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small">The problem turned out to be two missing dependencies, wxgtk and wxgtk2.0. When those were added to the Arch package build procedure for Erlang, Erlang/otp's own build procedure then generated wxe_driver.so and erl_gl.so. Without the wxgtk dependencies being provided, the wx 'priv' directory was not being created at all.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small">So that was fixed. But now in R16B03 the problem is back again: no wx .so files. Even though the wxgtk dependencies are being used. The bug report for that is here:</div>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small">The assumption is that there is some new dependency that the wx application wants. We have not been able to locate the place in Erlang's build packages where this is specified explicitly, so the missing dependencies can be added to the Arch package-building procedure. So some guidance on how to locate wx's dependencies would be appreciated.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small">Downloading the Erlang sources and building that on my own machine works just fine, of course.</div>
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