[PyOpenGL-Users] lack of -L/usr/X11R6/lib when building

[Huw L. <hu...@mo...>]

I'm currently trying to build PyOpenGL 2.0.1.08 on a RedHat 7.2 box against
Python-2.3.4 . I've already installed several big packages like PIL and
Numeric Python so I'm pretty sure that my Python setup is OK.

when doing "python setup.py build" I get the following error:

gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/src/Togl-1.6/togl.o -L/usr/lib
-L/usr/lib -Lbuild/temp.linux-i686-2.3 -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib
-Lbuild/temp.linux-i686-2.3 -lGL -lX11 -lXext -lGLU -lXmu -lXt -lm -ltcl8.3
-ltk8.3 -linterface_util -o build/Togl-1.6-tk8.3/Togl.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

libX11.so is under /usr/X11R6/lib 

config/linux.cfg contains the line:

library_dirs=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/X11/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib

so I would have expected to see -L/usr/X11R6/lib and -L/usr/X11/lib amongst
the gcc options but they were not there. The fact that -L/usr/lib is repeated
over and over again is making me suspicious that something nasty has happened.

Does anyone have any ideas about how I can start tracking down what is going
on?

Thanks,
Huw 

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