On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Dan Nicholson wrote:

>
> OK. I guess this was probably an oversight when writing the Xorg-7
> pages. Although most modern applications will use pkg-config to find
> out how to build against X, we should probably include the
> compatibility links by default like was done for Xorg-6.9.0 and is
> done for XFree86.
>
> But that wouldn't solve this problem since libX11 doesn't live in
> /opt/xorg/lib/X11. Now I'm looking at the Python sources and I see
> that they're just guessing a sample of hardcoded paths and don't look
> in /opt/xorg. Try this:
>
> sed -i 's%/usr/X11R6%/opt/xorg%' setup.py
>
> before building python.
Is there any problem with the X11R6 symlink approach? Seems a simple
enough workaround (specially because I already build python and I'm
building stuff depending on it :))
I don't know about most distibutions, but gentoo has X11R6 pointing to
../usr.
>
> --
> Dan
>

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Jorge
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