Re: [E-devel] configuration answer session

[Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...>]

On 12 Apr 2002 02:40:57 -0400 Greyson Fischer <gr...@ca...>
babbled:

and what would this configure script that you modified be fore? as the ones i'm
looking at explicitly add -lX11 to the link line to detect xext.

> Not a question:
> 
> Okay, so I got fed up with trying to get more than one autoconf to live
> happily on my system -- they decided to make one big lemming mosh pit
> and fell off the face of my hardrive -- when the dust cleared I was left
> with 1.4/2.13 which worked -- mostly.
> 
> I was running the new, shiney ./configure and it couldn't find
> XShmAttach -- I searched all the past records I could find, and found
> only debian related things... eventually I fond myself staring at a
> config.log file for a while and saw a line which bothered me, but I
> couldn't put my finger on why -- it was the compile line -- something
> like.
>    gcc -o conftest -g -02 -Wall  conftest.c -lXext -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> 
> There was a whole set of errors afterwards preceded by "warning:
> libX11.so.6, needed by /usr/X11R6/lib/libXExt.so, not found (try using
> -rptah of -rpath-link)
> 
> Suddenly, after a few sips alternating my double-fisted coffee and beer,
> it struck me... where's the -lX11?  So I found the correct place in
> ./configure and just threw in an -lX11... worked like a charm -- had to
> do it for a few more afterwards -- including one optional library
> Xrender -- which struck me as being useful, so I tried it just to see
> what would happen, and lo an' behold... it worked.
> 
> Anyway, so as not to waste anymore time, I just thought I'd bring this
> up as a possible solution for others running into the same problem, and
> since there seems to be a concerted effort to make autoconf/automake
> work nicely with x/y version, it might be helpful to know about this
> tidbit.
> 
> Cheers!
> 	Greyson
> 
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