Re: build failing with X not found

Pat Suwalski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.garnome
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> The Moon is Waning Crescent (29% of Full)
>> Only 10 kinds of people: those who do binary, and those who do not.
>> But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
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