Re: compiling c programs

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

On Wed 01 Mar 2000, Kor og Agnes van Hoegee wrote:

> I tried to compile the source-code of a program.
> 
> The make command results in:
> /usr/bin/ld : cannot open -lXi: No such file or directory
> 
> I think I am missing a libraryfile, but I don't know which one.

The error says which one: libXi.so

If you get the Contents-alpha.gz file from the ftp sites:

$ zgrep libXi.so Contents-alpha.gz
./usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so                                    x11/xlib6g-dev
./usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6                                  x11/xlib6g
./usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6.0                                x11/xlib6g

So you need to install the xlib6g-dev package (if necessary that will
pull in the xlib6g package, but in this case you'll already have that).

Paul Slootman
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