[Mesa3d-users] Re: Newbie problems installing Mesa

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Crash wrote:

> Brian Paul wrote:
> 
> > Jeff Plaxton wrote:
> >
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>         Fantastic project you've got here.  I'm trying to install the
> >> libraries on my computer, and I'm getting stuck.
> >>
> >> After "./configure --prefix=/usr"  I try make.
> >>
> >> It compiles a bunch of stuff, but then gives the following error:
> >>
> >> "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext"
> >>
> >> it then exits and stops.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?  I suspect something is wrong with the environment...
> >
> >
> > On Linux, the Xext lib is usually located here:
> >
> > % ls -l  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.*
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        58530 Mar  6  2000 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.a
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Jul 12  2000 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so ->
> > libXext.so.6.3*
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Jul 12  2000 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 ->
> > libXext.so.6.3*
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        54591 Mar  6  2000 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.3*
> >
> > Perhaps -lXext is installed elsewhere on your system.
> >
> > -Brian
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Nope...  I looked and it is in the same directory.  Both files and both
> links.  Is there some sort of environment variable to export with the
> path?  I am using Mandrake 8.0 Thanks again.


You'll have to send the last screen-full of compilation messages
so I can make a better guess.

-Brian