Re: problem report, compiling from CVS on Linux

Shaw Terwilliger (sterwill@postman.abisource.com)
Tue, 01 Jun 1999 15:03:58 -0500


Moses DeJong wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Jeff Hostetler wrote:
>
> Doh! I ran "make clean" and recompiled and that seemed to fix the
> problem.
>
> The downside is that not I got another error.
>
> Linking dynamic
> /usr/local/project/abi/src/../src/Linux_2.2.7_i386_OBJ/bin/AbiWord_d
> Linking static
> /usr/local/project/abi/src/../src/Linux_2.2.7_i386_OBJ/bin/AbiWord_s
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lXext: No such file or directory
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

That's GCC saying "I'd like to statically link a binary using libXext.a,
but I really can't FIND libXext.a." You can either install this or just
do "make UNIX_CAN_BUILD_STATIC=0" and let it only do the dynamic.

-- 
Shaw Terwilliger


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