On 3/23/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> I noticed that make was also failing, with the message:
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
>
> Googling around, I found that it wants a directory /usr/X11R6/lib. I had
> xorg in /opt/xorg, and /etc/ld.so.conf has:
>         # Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
>
>         /usr/local/lib
>         /usr/lib
>         /opt/lib
>         /opt/xorg/lib
>
>         # End /etc/ld.so.conf
> Creating a /usr/X11R6/ symlink to /opt/xorg solved the problem. Maybe
> the book should mention the need to create a /usr/X11R6 symlink?

You shouldn't need to do that. If you made that symlink, it would only
be working around a bug in some other software. Can you give more
details about linking to libX11 failing? What was make trying to link?
Can you show the actual command?

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