Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom build failure on an x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

[Frederic Lehobey]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 03:12:34AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> and I've been trying to set up Axiom on it.  It is running SuSE 10.1
> So far, I've been unsuccessful to build Axiom.  The failure is at
> 
> [...]
> 1 linking /home/gdr/build/axiom.2006-07-30/build/mnt/linux/lib/viewman
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so when searching 
> for -lX11
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a when searching for 
> -lX11
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [/home/gdr/build/axiom.2006-07-30/build/mnt/linux/lib/viewman] 
> Error 1
> 
> 
> The root of the problem is that (I suspect) Axiom has hardcoded the
> path to libX11, e.g. /usr/X11R6/lib.  In fact, on a 64-bit system, it
> is better to let configure find the good path (people have already
> solved this kind of problem, we don't need to go through it again).
> The path should be /usr/X11R6/lib64.

Other people are experiencing the same kind of problem. You can find
there: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376017 (in the
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/axiom_ftbfs.debdiff?bug=376017;msg=10;att=1
file) the solution used by the Ubuntu people (namely Soren Hansen
<address@hidden>). (Interesting lines are at the end of the monolithic
patch with respect to Camm's Debian package.)

Best regards,
Frédéric