Re: errors "make"ing fvwm95 :(

[tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (Tim Cutts)]

In article <[🔎] 322CEFDD.D5DD45B@aimnet.com>, Ken Gaugler  <keng@aimnet.com> wrote:
>I thought it would be fun to build fvwm95, so I got the file
>fvwm95-2_0_42a-Autoconf.tar, unpacked it, did the ./configure
>and then the make.  I got lots of interesting but not very
>funny messages like:
>
>gcc -o FvwmIconMan FvwmIconMan.o fvwm.o globals.o winlist.o xmanager.o
>-L../../libs -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lfvwm95-2 -lXpm -lXext -lX11 
>ld: cannot open -lfvwm95-2: No such file or directory
>make[2]: *** [FvwmIconMan] Error 1

This sounds like some sort of error in the Makefile.  Maybe that
-L../../libs is wrong?

>and
>
>FvwmButtons.c:41: X11/xpm.h: No such file or directory
>make[2]: *** [FvwmButtons.o] Error 1

That sounds like you haven't got the xpm development package
installed.  You need both the devel and run-time packages to compile
and use anything that uses xpm (like fvwm).

Tim.