Re: Installing from source on slc4_amd64_gcc34 (libX11-devel)

From: Paul Szczypka <paul.szczypka_at_cern.ch>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:28:50 +0200

Thanks Peter,

That's solved everything.

yum works fine once we know what to search for (obviously).

P

Peter Elmer wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:57:04PM +0200, Paul Szczypka wrote:
> <...>

>> configure: libX11 (package libX11-devel) MUST be installed
>>
>> We have the X11 libraries but there's no libX11-devel.so and searching 
>> on the web only seems to bring up links to builds for Fedora. Yum is no 
>> help either.
>>
>> Can anyone on this list help? My forum post so far has no responses.

>
> The message is a bit misleading, that isn't the name of the library/libraries
> you need. (The printout is "euphemistically indicative" of what you
> need... ;-) I believe you need to install the following rpm (64bit) for SL4:
>
> xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.63
>
> [BTW, someone should probably fix the mail configuration on root.cern.ch
> so that mails go out with that address rather than
> "roottalk_at_lxbuild091.cern.ch".]
>
> Pete
>
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