I have a problem compiling and installing the 1.1.11 version of the GIMP on my Linux box, and would greatly appreciate any help on this subject. After unpacking the source tarball, I started ./configure, which - as far as I can tell - did not complain about anything missing or outdated. Subsequently I ran make, and was perplexed to notice that the compilation process failed with messages like " ... file "X11/Xlib.h" included from foo.c: File does not exist" (I don't remember the exact wording). So I installed the XFree 3.3.4 sources, and looked for the required files there, with success. My question is: how do I make "make" clear where to look for them? Things I tried and wich didn't work: - copying all the required files to /lib/X11 (since in the source they are all referred to as "X11/foo.h") - adding the path to the X sources to ld.so.conf - starting ./configure with the --x-libraries=[PATH] switch - desperatedly, hard-coding the correct path into the source files (which does work, but there are too many of them and it is catastrophically un-elegant...) I would be very grateful for any advice from people who know more about compilation arcana than I do. Thomas Fischer (tfischer_at_gmx.ch) -- Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net
