Same results on my home vm.. $PATH has both /usr/X11R6/bin and
/usr/X11R7/bin and they are real directories

Nick

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Nick Allgood <[email protected]> wrote:

> In both my VM's (work and home) that have netbsd .. they both have
> /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/X11R7/bin .. and I just verified they indeed are
> distinct directories (not symlinks)
>
> Oddly enough, Project Center and Gorm magically started to work on the work
> VM of netbsd yesterday.. I have no clue why either.. i didn't touch
> it...though my home one is still having the same issue in this thread.
>
> When i get home I'll give my home one a whirl and see if i can check out
> the PATH and configure stuff
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nick
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Fred Kiefer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> with Nicola's findings I think it is important to have a look at the
>> config.log and config.h files produced by configure. Somehow two
>> different versions of X11 are found and this is a problem in itself and
>> needs to be fixed. And this may resolve your original issue as well.
>> Are these directories actually different or is one a link to the other
>> and where could the wrong one come from? Here you should check your path
>> environment variable:
>> echo $PATH
>>
>> Cheers
>> Fred
>>
>> Am 08.11.2010 22:10, schrieb Fred Kiefer:
>> > Am 08.11.2010 13:56, schrieb Nicola Pero:
>> >>
>> >>>> freetype-config --libs
>> >>>>
>> >>>> and it should return the right command options, but obviously it
>> doesn't.
>> >>>
>> >>> It looks like the problem is that it is providing the correct flags to
>> pass to ld, but we are passing them to gcc.
>> >>
>> >> Why do you say that ?  Any evidence ?
>> >>
>> >> What I personally immediately noticed in that linker command line is
>> that it has both -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib
>> >> *and* -Wl,-R/usr/X11R7/lib -L/usr/X11R7/lib.  Wouldn't these refer to
>> different releases of X11 ?  Is it wise to link
>> >> against the two at the same time ?  Wouldn't you get conflicting (or
>> just the wrong) libraries linked in ?
>> >
>> > Well spotted! I overlooked this even when copying the link line into my
>> > mail and editing it. Any idea how this could happen? Do we screw up
>> > within configure or later one?
>>
>
>
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