#283 configure file error

[Dana Booth]

I tried to compile the tarball on Solus, before I got that far, the configure file erred out very quickly:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in /home/dana/Downloads/xfe-1.46.1': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables Seeconfig.log' for more details

That didn't sound right, so I made a hello world with gcc and it executed just fine. (a.out)

Thanks,

[Roland Baudin]

Hi,
your config.log says:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11: No such file or directory

so you probably didn't install X11 development libraries. You also need the FOX toolkit and some other dependencies.

[Dana Booth]

Thank you, I did get that (X11 libs) installed, but the FOX toolkit 1.6.xx download takes me to a 404, and my system wouldn't build the 1.7.xx development download. I do run Xfe on Debian (main) and on Manjaro (VM), just Solus giving me trouble. I guess I didn't read the log file closely, sorry to waste your time.

[Roland Baudin]

To compile Xfe, you need stable FOX 1.6.x not devel 1.7.x.