Re: Problems finding X when configuring

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Shawn McCuan (<mccuan@wave3.org>) wrote:

> Whenever i try to configure anything (by running ./configure), It
> always stops at "/Checking for X/" or "/Checking for libXext/" or
> "/Checking for X Includes/" . Im fairly sure that my computer has
> xfree86 installed, (ive ran */apt-get install xserver-xfree86/*) and i
> believe the directory to xserver "stuff" is at /*/usr/X11R6/lib/X11*/.
> So, ive
> even tried running configuring scripts with the command  */./configure
> --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/

apt-get install xlibs-dev

should help.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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