This is user friendlier than straight up erroring Backport of 16ad3e5af6ac12af6d6e06c49d78f4d6ec081519
@@ -459,10 +459,7 @@ macro(CheckX11)
find_file(HAVE_XDBE_H NAMES "X11/extensions/Xdbe.h" HINTS "${X_INCLUDEDIR}")
find_file(HAVE_XEXT_H NAMES "X11/extensions/Xext.h" HINTS "${X_INCLUDEDIR}")
- if(X11_LIB)
- if(NOT HAVE_XEXT_H)
- message_error("Missing Xext.h, maybe you need to install the libxext-dev package?")
- endif()
+ if(X11_LIB AND HAVE_XEXT_H)
set(HAVE_X11 TRUE)
set(HAVE_SDL_VIDEO TRUE)