----- Original Message ----- > I followed the instructions in the README and tried building on a > new, > blank ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS system. configure was able to detect that > cups, > asound & freetype libs were not installed, and provided helpful > instructions to get them, but it failed to catch that X libraries > were > not installed - I had to install them 'manually' - > > sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxext-dev libxt-dev libxrender-dev > libxtst-dev > > Might want to update configure to check for these libs on linux. >
Well that won't work everywhere: $ apt-get install libx11-dev libxext-dev libxt-dev libxrender-dev bash: apt-get: command not found so this advice has limited usage anyway. How did it fail without the X libraries? > On 03/01/2013 09:18 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote: > > > > Please do not 'reply all', send concerns or issues to just the > > build-dev or build-infra-dev aliases. > > > > The very latest README-builds.html file is: > > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html > > > > This documents the new build makefiles only. > > As with all documents of this type, it will always be a work in > > progress. > > > > -kto > > > > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
