Re: Help with compiling X 4.2.0
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 17:20, Matt Jones wrote:
> I am trying to compile X so that I can use my Geforce2 video card.
> I am running debian 2.2r2 and did a clean install yesterday.
> I put the source code on the drive and began compiling. The make World
> worked fine, but when I did make Install I recieved the following errors...
>
> "...
> rm -f gunzip.o
> gcc -c -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith
> -I../../../include/fonts -I../include -I../../../programs/Xserver/include
> -I../../../include -I../../.. -I../../../exports/include -Dlinux
> -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE
> -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO
> -DFONTDIRATTRIB -DBUILD_SPEEDO -DBUILD_TYPE1 -DBUILD_CID
> -DBUILD_FREETYPE
> -DFONT_ENCODINGS_DIRECTORY=\"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir\"
> -DX_GZIP_FONT_COMPRESSION gunzip.c
> gunzip.c:9: zlib.h: No such file or directory
>
> How can I fix this error, or is it an error I can fix?
> Does anyone know what this means?
The zlib.h file is missing.
[btt]$ dpkg -S zlib.h
xlibs-dev: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions/lbxzlib.h
zlib1g-dev: /usr/include/zlib.h
libbz2-dev: /usr/include/bzlib.h
Try installing the zlib1g-dev package (on Woody it is zlib1g-dev).
Good luck...
Bill
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