Re: build failing with X not found

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Moreover, Chuck, on debian-unstable, you should be able to:

	apt-get install xorg-dev

I think that will give you everything you need.

--Pat

Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> Many Linux distos distribute both "user" and "devel" packages for X11.
> Make sure that both the X11 libs and headers are installed on your
> system.
>
> The configure process for xrender automatically searchs for the libs and
> headers in standard locations at were typical in 2003. Things change
> over time as is evidenced by the locations of the X11 libs and headers
> on an FC6 system.
>
> xrender does allow the locations of the X11 libs and headers to be set
> explicitly as CONFIGURE_ARGS
>
>   --x-includes=DIR    X include files are in DIR
>   --x-libraries=DIR   X library files are in DIR
>
> Edit the GAR makefile and add these CONFIGURE_ARGS
>
> CONFIGURE_ARGS = $(DIRPATHS) 
> CONFIGURE_ARGS += --x-includes=/a/b/c/include --x-libraries=/c/d/e/lib
>
> where /a/b/c & /c/d/e are paths on your system.
>
> -Joseph
>
> =====================================================================
>
>
> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 20:31 -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > My partition space problem is solved, but now the build fails as 
> > follows:
> >
> > checking for X... no
> > configure: error: X is required, but it was either disabled or not 
> > found.
> > make[5]: *** [configure-work/main.d/xrender-0.8.3/configure] Error 1
> > make[5]: Leaving directory 
> > `/pub/gnome/garnome-2.16.1.1/freedesktop/xrender'
> >
> > Here is output from "which" and "file":
> >
> > gnome cq:desktop% which X Xorg
> > /usr/bin/X
> > /usr/bin/Xorg
> > gnome cq:desktop% file /usr/bin/X /usr/bin/Xorg
> > /usr/bin/X:    symbolic link to `/usr/bin/Xorg'
> > /usr/bin/Xorg: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), 
> > for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for 
> > GNU/Linux 2.4.1, stripped
> >
> >
> > So X is there, or actually Xorg, but it is shown for Linux 2.4.1, 
> > whereas my kernel is 2.6.18, as per this:
> >
> > gnome cq:desktop% uname -a
> > Linux cq 2.6.18 #1 SMP Sat Oct 7 14:45:02 EDT 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> > I have been using this X with gnome 2.14, installed from the Debian 
> > unstable archives, and am attempting to move up to gnome 2.16 with this 
> > garnome build. Any help with this would be most welcome. 
> >
> > Puzzled,
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
> >
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