Building XFree

[Suhaib M. Siddiqi]

I tried posting a reply to the following message twice, yesterday.
Somewhere
in the cyberspace my replies got lost and were never posted.

The -lXext undefined references you are getting because linXext in
xc/lib/Xext did not
get compiled.
cd to xc/lib/Xext and type
make
then cut and paste the error messages.  It will help me to find out why
compilation of linXext failed.

It is a bad idea to link against existing X libs, in /usr/X11R6/lib, when
compiling X source tree.

You cannot use ./configure to compile XFree source tree.  There is no
configure.
Seems to me you are new to compile X.  X is compiled using imake and
makedepend
which is invoked by typing

make World >& World.log

Suhiab

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While building xfree 4.0 I get the following error.

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-cygwin/2.95.2/../../../../i686-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot
open -lXext: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
dllwrap: gcc exited with status 1

 Can anyone spare a moment to point me in the right direction to fix it?  It
looks to be a simple path or environment variable problem?   What is the
best way to tell ld  the lib is in the /usr/X11r6/lib dir as xfree does not
use
"./configure --prefix=/usr/X11r6 --x-includes=/usr/X11r6/include --x-librari
es=/usr/X11r6/lib "

My build is std CD v1.0 build with a path to gcc 2.95.2 added.


Regards Trevor