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   1 wxwidgets for Debian
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   3
   4 The following packages are built from the wxWidgets CVS source.
   5
   6 libwxgtk                wxGTK runtime shared libraries, including selected
   7                         contrib libs.
   8 libwxgtk-dev            extra files required for building wxGTK apps
   9 libwxgtk-dbg            wxGTK libraries built with -g and __WXDEBUG__
  10
  11 libwxgtk-python         Python binding to wxGTK  (from 2.2.3 onward, this
  12                         obsoletes the libwxgtk-python-contrib package as
  13                         all python modules are built into a single monolith)
  14
  15 wx-headers              common header files for building wxWidgets apps
  16 wx-doc                  HTML version of the wxWidgets manual
  17 wx-examples             wxWidgets and wxPython demos and samples (source)
  18 wx-i18n                 message catalogs for native language support
  19
  20
  21         Note that static libraries are no longer supplied in these
  22         packages.  Please read, or have understood:
  23         http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html
  24         among others before reporting this as a bug.
  25
  26         The following binaries can be built from the source package
  27         with the mingw32 cross compiler, but are not currently
  28         distributed by Debian.  If you feel that should change,
  29         please file a bug against the wxwidgets2.5 package, or
  30         append your views to a report already there if you're not
  31         the first to do so.
  32
  33         [ you can check the current state of affairs at:
  34           http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=wxwidgets2.5 ]
  35
  36         Oh and, please do *not* file bug reports for these packages
  37         to the Debian bts.  But do feel free to email me personally
  38         if you find problems and/or have patches to fix them.
  39
  40 libwxmsw-dev            mingw32-cross wxMSW libs.
  41 libwxmsw-dbg            mingw32-cross wxMSW (debug) libs.
  42 wx-headers-msw          extra headers needed for wxMSW.
  43
  44         You can build these extra packages using the binary-cross target
  45         in debian/rules.
  46
  47
  48         It is also possible to build a libwxgtk-dbg-python package.
  49         There are some limitations (like this package cannot be installed
  50         concurrently with the release version), but some developers may
  51         find such a thing useful in any case.  It will transparently
  52         replace the release package for installed apps that depend on the
  53         release package, but should NEVER be used when preparing packages
  54         for upload.  This package may be created from the source using the
  55         binary-dbg-py target in debian/rules.  (note that doing this will
  56         also destroy any release build that exists in the same tree, they
  57         cannot coexist there either yet)
  58
  59
  60         Finally, because all of these packages can take quite some time to
  61         build, the source package supports the use of distcc.  The package
  62         builds will automatically parallelise to suit the number of hosts
  63         you have listed in DISTCC_HOSTS.  This will work for both native
  64         and cross builds of the c++ libraries, if you have the relevant
  65         compilers on all your build hosts.  wxPython builds cannot be
  66         parallelised at this stage and will run serially regardless of
  67         your configuration.
  68
  69
  70  -- Ron Lee <ron@debian.org>, Sun, 13 Feb 2000 18:40:00 +1030
  71