Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

[Francois Maltey]

Hi Gabriel,

It seems it's right.

> The problem is not there.  I think I've seen the error you're urnning
> into before.  It has to do with symbolic links working only portably
> when given absolute path.  I'm in the process of updating and making
> sure my "theory" is right.  But, basically, instead of doing
> 
>     lndir ../axiom/silver
>     ./configure
> 
> you should be doing
> 
>     lndir /usr/local/axiom/silver .  
>     ./configure
> 
> from axiom-local.
> 
> Please, restart asfresh (e.g. erase directory axiom-local and restart
> from there, you don't need to touch the directory "axiom" where you
> downloaded Axiom to).

The previous step is right.

Now make complains there is no X11/Xlib.h file.

I'll update my debian distribution with some apt-get, 
but tomorrow, it's late.

Thanks a lot.

Francois