-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey Ian,
This sounds like reasonable advice. It doesn't fit this particular problem however, as it's not complaining about missing software, rather it was looking for X libraries. At any rate, the kcharselect was what I was after I guess. Thanks. Jarrod On Friday 31 January 2003 5:11 pm, you wrote: > 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. - -- Jarrod Major GPG Fingerprint: FA4A 1EA3 A0EE A842 07BB 804C 0090 14F6 BE6E DE3D CLUG Treasurer Registered Linux User: #224211 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPjs3kwCQFPa+bt49AQJIGwP/Yvu9/oZzCdyRtw3fiEmkac42D1K4pXdn 1QXNhMth/HAsAKy//MTWsTx1GoPMJI1vHZnvQJbxSw2D2HO6L0Kec1CEqTf0n6PA PcGu1FYXIgGsUPVDzmUQ9VtynMSHX75qyuMlD6WVaQFegvASTF79O4l9rCoF32AK qL+X/CFrqTc= =aPbT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
