Great! Errr... still a pain. Might be possible to solve with symbolic
links. I'm still thinking about the "correct" way.
Ed
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Jen Balfour wrote:
> This is exactly the same problem I ran into on my Ubuntu install.
>
> > I have previously gotten starlink to build on a 32bit dapper drake
> > install, and I'm now trying it on a 64bit install with a fresh checkout
> > from the cvs. This time I'm keeping notes of the problems I've run into!
> >
> > Currently I'm stuck on an apparently failed X11 dependency in gwm:
> >
> > configure: error: No X11 development system found. Cannot continue
> > configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for gwm
> > configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for libraries
> >
> > I looked at configure.ac for gwm and see that the message is caused by
> >
> > AC_PATH_XTRA
> >
> > I've been looking at the definition of this macro to see what it does:
> >
> > thirdparty/fsf/autoconf/lib/autoconf/libs.m4
> >
> > and found the place where it fails. If you follow through AC_PATH_XTRA
> > (via AC_PATH_X) you get to:
> >
> > _AC_PATH_X_XMKMF
> >
> > Here ac_x_includes gets set to "no" and ac_x_libraries set to
> > "/usr/X11R6/lib", hence the failure. Inside the includes check it looks
> > for $ac_im_incroot/X11/Xos.h which sure enough doesn't exist
> > (ac_im_incroot is /usr/X11R6/include) - the /include directory doesn't
> > exist there. However, I do have a /usr/include/X11/Xos.h
> >
> > Inside the gwm directory if I instead do
> >
> > ./configure --x-includes=/usr/include/X11 --x-libraries=/usr/lib/X11/
> >
> > it seems to work to completion. I then decided to go back to the top of my
> > starlink build tree and attempt a new configure -C before doing make
> > world, using the same configure options. When it gets down to gwm it borks
> > on the same X11 dependency - should options passed to the top-level
> > configure script get passed to the children?
> >
> > For reference, I've installed X development files with the following
> > packages:
> >
> > sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
> >
> > Once I get the whole thing building I will post detailed instructions.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Ed
> >
>
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