Jarrod,

I don't know what distro you run, and I only occasionally build from source, 
but I can tell you that what usually does it for me with Mandrake is to 
install the -devel RPM that matches the software that configure complained 
about.  In your case (and pretending that you run Mandrake 9.0), you would 
want to make sure XFree86-devel-4.2.1-3mdk.i586.rpm is installed.  Generally, 
with RPM based distros like Mandrake and RedHat, they package the header 
files needed to compile stuff separate from the main software package, in a 
-devel RPM.

HTH.

Ian

On Friday 31 January 2003 4:53 pm, Jarrod Major wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Being the correct person that I am and taking into account that we live in
> a country with diverse cultural heritage I try to always do things the
> right way. Case in point: I have been on IRC a bunch lately. Sebastien
> (notice something wrong) is frequently on there. Well, in Windows I have a
> tool called charmap. I also am pretty savvy with ASCII codes so am
> constantly doing the alt+0233 combination to get a e with an acute accent.
>
> So I am looking for a similar tool or coping mechanism. I found KCharMap,
> which unfortunately is not a part of KDE as of yet. I got the installer and
> attempted to install it (from source I might add).
>
> Well it crapped out at ./configure. I am presented with the following error
> message:
>
> "checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check
> your installation and add the correct paths!"
>
> so looking at the INSTALL notes I can plug in the path to tell it where to
> find X includes and X libraries. I do not know where these things live and
> I don't see any command to suppress this dependency. Anyone have any
> suggestions?
>
> Now before you go searching like mad or wracking your brains. Is there a
> console command that will give me the character(s) in question? Something
> like doing the alt+0233 thing?
>
> Just curious. I don't really need the GUI tool, in fact I would prefer a
> console solution if at all possible. Too bad it's not something that is
> built into apps like the windows alt+0233 thing. Or is it?
>
> My searching and Googling has come up with nothing beyond KCharMap.

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