Re: "libX11.a"?

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote:
> hi all
>
> thanks to the help of Mariano Suarez Alvarez and david vogler's page @
> http://lisas.de/~david/tsp4270/index.php3#SVGA, I've finally got X to
> recognise my video card ... yay ... however, the installation script for
> the patched S3 Savage Server is telling me that I don't have XFree86
> installed (i have 3.3.6-6).
>
> The error's generated by the first line of the installation script which
> check's to see if the file "/etc/X11R6/lib/libX11.a" exists ... it doesn't
> on my system ... although I do have "libX11.so, libX11.so.6 &
> libX11.so.6.1" in the same directory. I was hoping somebody might know
> where the file comes from, or what it does?
It is a static library and belongs to package xlib6g-static.

--
Andrew