I think I've Got It

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Michael, and all,

Looking at the libX11 files:

ar tv libX11.so    etc..

Got no libraries, so I figured that you had to have a .a  -- so the X11 
libraries were not loaded.

I loaded everything in sight that the X11 search produced.  Nothing said 
X11 when I searched, just names of packages.  Sigh!  It would help if one 
knew what one is looking for.

Now I have a libX11.a

and xvista seems to compile.

Sigh!  You all give me a trick (the ar tv above) and it goes into my 
bag.  Then it is only a question of finding where I have put the 
spell.  This one was found on top the refrigerator.  No kidding.  Now it is 
safely in a file folder.

Still, you all cannot convince me that this is not magic!!!!!

You would think that specifying the Scientific Workstation would have got 
some of this, but I had to go after this and gsl and something else to get 
the pipeline to compile.  Oh well, I am learning.

Tom Droege

At 05:35 PM 3/4/03 -0500, you wrote:

>    I've been trying to make my machine more secure; the
>result is that my machine is not more secure, and I've been
>bouncing E-mails for a day.  Sigh.
>
>    The problem is that the loader can't find the X Windows
>libraries.  On my system, they are located at
>
>            /usr/X11R6/lib
>
>but they might be somewhere else on your computer.  Or they
>might not be installed at all.
>
>    To search for them, try
>
>            find / -name 'libX11*' -print
>
>and see what comes up.  If they do exist on your system, you
>need to change one of the lines in the xvista Makefile.
>If your X libraries are in directory "/usr/Xdir/lib/", then
>you need to change the default
>
>        XLIBS=-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -ldl
>
>to
>
>        XLIBS=-L/usr/Xdir/lib -lX11 -ldl
>
>     If you don't have the X libraries at all, you'll need
>to install them -- or just give up on Mandrake 9.0 and go back
>to Mandrake 8.1.
>
>     My E-mail may be unreliable for a while :-(
>
>                                 Michael