[Gambas-devel] Build failed for Gambas 2.0.0

Stefano Palmeri rospolosco at ...29...
Fri Jan 4 10:19:49 CET 2008


Alle 03:46, venerdì 4 gennaio 2008, MV ha scritto:
> Thank you very much for your prompt reply. I've been toying for a couple of
> hours with gambas, and it was worth the effort. I just thought it might be
> mildly funny to read it, as well as providing some hints for those unlucky
> enough to be trapped like I was.
>
> > your libXext
> > error needs more than the headers, in Debian you need to install
> > libxtst-dev, and these are the files it contains:
> > http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/libxtst-dev/filelist
>
> I wasn't really clear : I had both the headers and the library itself. I
> certainly installed the dev part of the package. But for some reasons, this
> is not enough anymore. From the file you pointed me to, I was only missing
> the pkgconfig declaration. That really irritates me. The more the auto
> packagers try to be smart, the more one runs up in walls like this one, and
> those are completely arbitrary as otherwise the really needed bits are
> correctly installed, in the lib_path, and ldconfig knows them. Soon, we'll
> have config files pointing to helper files directing to list files
> containing references to variables holding relative paths to something we
> need to find the library. Not gambas' team fault, of course :-)
>
> Best wishes for this new year,

I had the same problem with LD not finding libxtst (even if it was already 
installed); but there's an easy solution. 

When you want to compile Gambas type on console:

export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/X11R6/lib" 
./configure


Regards, 

Stefano




More information about the Devel mailing list