On 2006.11.16 21:29:34 -0800, Peter Scott wrote: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:20:20 -0500 > Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >"Peter Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>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. > > > > 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!
JFYI you can just run "ldconfig" to have those symlinks created for all libraries in /lib, /usr/lib and whatever is in your /etc/ld.so.conf. Looks like your upgrade "forgot" to do that ;) HTH Björn
