Re: cannot open -lXm

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@wcug.wwu.edu>]

On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I can't compile Ted (richtext word processor)
> 
> I keep getting the error
> 
> ld: cannot open -lXm: No such file or directory
> 
> Usually this means that the -L is set wrong but it says:
> 
> (beginning clipped)
>  -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXm -lXp -lXpm -lXt
> -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11  -lm
> 
> antelope:/usr/X11R6/lib# ls libXm*
> libXm.so       libXm.so.1     libXmu.so      libXmu.so.6.0
> libXm.so.0     libXm.so.1.2   libXmu.so.6
> antelope:/usr/X11R6/lib# dpkg --list | grep lesstif 
> ri  lesstifg        0.86.9-2       OSF/Motif implementation released under
> LGPL
> ii  lesstifg-dev    0.86.9-2       Development library and header files
> for Les
> antelope:/usr/X11R6/lib# 
> 
> Does any one know what I should do or check next?
> 

I solved my problem...

Ted required statically linked versions of the libraries... I fixed the
problem by:

apt-get install lesstifg-dbg
apt-get install xlib6g-static

  Jeremy C. Reed
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