On Nov 9, 2007 4:22 AM, Allan Lavell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think this email got through for some reason or another. Here > it is in its entirety. > > I have been unable to successfully copmile the xorg 7 libraries. I > have been following the development BLFS tutorial on installing xorg, > step by step. xproto-7.2 seems to have installed fine, so i don't know > why xorg-lib isnt compiling. the problem seems to lie with xproto. > > grep xext xorg-lib-compile.log generates teh following output: > > checking for XXF86MISC... configure: error: Package requirements > (xproto x11 xextproto xext xf86miscproto) were not met: > No package 'xext' found > checking for XXF86VM... configure: error: Package requirements (xproto > x11 xextproto xext xf86vidmodeproto) were not met: > No package 'xext' found > > Actually, the output is much longer than that, but it's basically the > same thing for every package. I don't get it: xproto installed fine. > When I check /usr/lib/pkgconfig, xextproto.pc and xproto.pc are there. > I installed xorg to the standard prefix. The pkgconfig path env variable is > set > up correctly (/etc/profile.d/extrapaths.sh has pathappend > /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig PKG_CONFIG_PATH > in it).
What it's bombing on is xext, which is provided by libXext. Do you have that installed? Are you following the order listed in the lib-7.2.wget file? -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
