RE: [Sheflug] Plex86

["French, Alastair" <nospam [at] racalinst.co.uk>]

Cheers

I will give this a go tonight

Alastair

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Will Newton [SMTP:will [at] misconception.org.uk]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 04, 2001 2:26 PM
> To:	Sheflug
> Subject:	Re: [Sheflug] Plex86
> 
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, French, Alastair wrote:
> 
> > I have just been introduced to plex86 and obtained the latest code from
> the
> > CVS server last night. I created the docs OK and followed the build
> > instructions. The configure script ran OK but the make failed in the
> > user/plugins/bochs directory. The failure was related to the linker and
> > complained about could not find X11 on a line ending with -lX11. I have
> > checked all the paths and options for configure but cannot find the
> source
> > of the error.
> 
> It could be that the configure script has options to set this. Do
> ./configure --help.
> 
> Most makefiles have:
> 
> --x-libraries=DIR       X library files are in DIR
> 
> as an option.
> 
> Try ./configure --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib
> 
> (alter according to the correct path)
> 
> If not, two options:
> 
> 1) Fix the configure script. Not recommended for the beginner.
> 
> 2) Hack the makefile so it just works, and tell the maintainer about the
> problem and get them to submit a proper fix. The method of choice. :)
> 
> Find your X11 libraries. On my system:
> 
> [will@dogfox will]$ locate libX11
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2
> 
> Edit the makefile, find instances of the string '-lX11' and add the string
> '-L/path/to/lib' in front of it (e.g. I would put '-L/usr/X11R6/lib').
> 
> This should fix the problem.
> 
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