On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:20:20 -0500
Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Peter Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I have just upgraded(?) from Fedora Core 5 to Fedora
Core 6, and since I like fvwm a lot and have an
excellent
config file for fvwm, I tried building fvwm-2.5.18. but
it
fails in the final steps.
./configure works cleanly with no options.
make bombs with this error message:
gcc -DFVWM_MODULEDIR=\"/usr/local/libexec/fvwm/2.5.16\"
-DFVWM_DATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/fvwm\"
-DFVWM_CONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc\"
-DFVWM_COLORSET_PRIVATE=1
-DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -Wall
...
-L/usr/lib64 -lXpm -lstroke -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11
-lm
-lpng -lz
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [fvwm] Error 1
[...]
libXext is installed: locate libXext yields:
/usr/lib/libXext.so.6
/usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
/usr/lib64/libXext.so.6
/usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0
You appear to be missing the soft link for the library
itself. It should look something like:
lrwxrwxrwx /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so -> libXext.so.6.4
lrwxrwxrwx /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 ->
libXext.so.6.4
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.4
There needs to be one file named libXext.so.
Create a soft link.
--
Dan Espen E-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks so much Dan for this suggestion. I created the
soft link:
(as root in /usr/lib64):
ln -s libXext.so.6.4.0 libXext.so
so that ll -h libXext* yields:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Nov 16 21:09 libXext.so ->
libXext.so.6.4.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Nov 14 03:30 libXext.so.6 ->
libXext.so.6.4.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71K Jul 12 23:42 libXext.so.6.4.0
and now the build completes cleanly! I guess I don't
need the static library. onwards!
-- Peter
