Re: Difficulty compiling GNUstep under Slackware 7.

[Sungjin Chun]

Hi,

I think you should have libXext.so and is in the dev package for
X11.( I do not know the exact package name. )

----- Original Message -----
From: <zak@mode3.com>
To: <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 11:51 PM
Subject: Difficulty compiling GNUstep under Slackware 7.


>
> Dear GNU step folks,
>
> I would very much appreciate it if someone could assist me with a problem.
>
> When I attempt to compile GNUStep 0.6.6 I get the following error.
>
> <start error>
> /usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -lXext: No such file or
> directory
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [shared_obj/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/gpbs] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [gpbs.build] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [gpbs.all.tool.variables] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [internal-all] Error 2
> make: *** [subproj-all] Error 2
> <end error>
>
> I have attempted setting CC="egcs" as suggested in the RedHat HOWTO but
> that makes no difference.
>
> "ldconifig -v | grep Xext" prints:
>         libXext.so.6 => libXext.so.6.4
>
> I'm Running Slackware 7, kernel version 2.2.13.
>
> Please let me know if there is any other information that would assist
> you.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zak L Brown
>
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