[Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux1

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:42:57 -0800
Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> nice, idea, but....
> 
>     libX11.so.6
>     libXext.so.6
>     libXrender.so.1
>     libGL.so.1
> 
> These are all X11, yes? pretty much any workstation will have these, but in
> general, servers won't.

For the record, not having or not running a X11 server doesn't mean you
don't have a subset of the corresponding *libraries*.

For example, I have a Debian jessie server and, while there's no
X11-related executable on the machine, I still have the following
libraries installed:

$ dpkg -l | grep X
[...]
ii  libpangox-1.0-0:amd64            0.0.2-5                       amd64        pango library X backend
ii  libpixman-1-0:amd64              0.32.6-3                      amd64        pixel-manipulation library for X and cairo
ii  libpod-latex-perl                0.61-1                        all          module to convert Pod data to formatted LaTeX
ii  libx11-6:amd64                   2:1.6.2-3                     amd64        X11 client-side library
ii  libx11-data                      2:1.6.2-3                     all          X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6:amd64                    1:1.0.8-1                     amd64        X11 authorisation library
ii  libxcb-render0:amd64             1.10-3+b1                     amd64        X C Binding, render extension
ii  libxcb-shm0:amd64                1.10-3+b1                     amd64        X C Binding, shm extension
ii  libxcb1:amd64                    1.10-3+b1                     amd64        X C Binding
ii  libxdmcp6:amd64                  1:1.1.1-1+b1                  amd64        X11 Display Manager Control Protocol library
ii  libxext6:amd64                   2:1.3.3-1                     amd64        X11 miscellaneous extension library
ii  libxft2:amd64                    2.3.2-1                       amd64        FreeType-based font drawing library for X
ii  libxml2:amd64                    2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u1          amd64        GNOME XML library
ii  libxpm4:amd64                    1:3.5.11-1+b1                 amd64        X11 pixmap library
ii  libxrender1:amd64                1:0.9.8-1+b1                  amd64        X Rendering Extension client library
ii  xkb-data                         2.12-1                        all          X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configuration data
[...]

Regards

Antoine.