XCB_CONN_CLOSED_FDPASSING_FAILED’ undeclared

[madisodr]

Ubuntu 13.10 / Linux version 3.11.0-26-generic / gcc/g++ version 4.8.1

Getting this error on the most recent pull of code. I installed the required dependencies based on
[ https://github.com/windelicato/dotfiles/wiki/bspwm-for-dummies ] Must have missed one or two?

Did some digging and found that XCB_CONN_CLOSED_FDPASSING_FAILED is declared in libxcb-sync but installing this didn't fix the issue.

cc -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -I/usr/local/include -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L -DVERSION="0.8.9" -Os -c -o bspwm.o bspwm.c
bspwm.c: In function ‘check_connection’:
bspwm.c:375:9: error: ‘XCB_CONN_CLOSED_FDPASSING_FAILED’ undeclared (first use in this function)
case XCB_CONN_CLOSED_FDPASSING_FAILED:
^
bspwm.c:375:9: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make: *** [bspwm.o] Error 1

[baskerville]

I'm not sure how things are packaged on Ubuntu but that constant is in libxcb since January 2013.

[museur]

This is from Debian:
"cc -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -I/usr/local/include -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L -DVERSION="0.8.9" -Os -c -o bspwm.o bspwm.c
bspwm.c: In function ‘check_connection’:
bspwm.c:372:9: error: ‘XCB_CONN_CLOSED_INVALID_SCREEN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
bspwm.c:372:9: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
bspwm.c:375:9: error: ‘XCB_CONN_CLOSED_FDPASSING_FAILED’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [bspwm.o] Error 1"

If I by-pass the check:
"cc -o bspwm bspwm.o helpers.o settings.o monitor.o desktop.o tree.o stack.o history.o events.o pointer.o window.o messages.o query.o restore.o rule.o ewmh.o subscribe.o -L/usr/local/lib -s -lm -lxcb -lxcb-icccm -lxcb-ewmh -lxcb-randr -lxcb-xinerama
bspwm.o: In function main': bspwm.c:(.text.startup+0x113): undefined reference tocheck_connection'
bspwm.c:(.text.startup+0x39c): undefined reference to `check_connection'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [bspwm] Error 1"

In debian lxcb binary, instead of /usr/local/lib:
"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-icccm.a
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-icccm.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-icccm.so.4
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-icccm.so.4.0.0"

etc.

The system has all of libxcb1 plus undependent libxcb-*0.

I'm stuck with gnome now, until this got a fix, I do not really want to migrate to another wm.

[museur]

Any way to acquire some old version of bspwm repo?

[museur]

Well, I got this fork working just fine. @madisodr pull this: https://github.com/tmathmeyer/bspwm

[ghost]

For a workaround, please check my reddit post if that helps.. http://www.reddit.com/r/bspwm/comments/2vsadi/i_am_having_trouble_installing_bspwm_on_debian/coscz6r

[baskerville]

Here's a simple fix: git checkout b0e8dd3.

It would be great to report this problem to the relevant package maintainers though...

[ghost]

I've got the same error on Centos 7 with a clone from recent baskerville git.
"git checkout b0e8dd3" - this didn't help much, because it was in "'detached HEAD' state". So this fix is not that simple and helpful. I just cloned from tmathmeyer and it built without any errors.

[vistamon82]

any new workaround on this? I'm experiencing the same problem on CentOS 7, but I can't clone the @tmathmeyer git because it doesn't exist any more.

[Custodia]

@CryptoGranny @vistamon82

Detached head is nothing nefarious, if you are unfamiliar with git see this.

I don't know if the workaround commit is the same for CentOS 7 but for debian wheezy doing the checkout and then making normally works.