[NCLUG] make problem

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 08:39:39AM -0600, Jake Edge wrote:
> It is looking for a libXext.so or libXext.a and can't find it ... on my
> Redhat 7.2 box it is in /usr/X11R6/lib ... if you do a search for 'libXext'
> on google (or rpmfind) you should be able to track it down ...

on my debian box, it's part of the xlibs package, so you'd need to install
xlib6g-dev; but I don't know how SuSE package their X.  Almost certainly
not the same way :-)

> in case you don't have some of the other libraries listed, when there is a
> '-lxxxx' in the link line, it will be looking for libxxxx in the 'usual'
> places (/lib and /usr/lib I think) as well as any directories you have
> listed as -L switches (btw, I don't think you need /usr/lib listed 4
> times with -L) ... 

that's hardly his fault.  it's normally autoconf which decides you need
to mention each lib and its search path twenty times.

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