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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Problem with compiling Xforms
From:       Jan Van Belle <Jan.Van_Belle () alcatel ! be>
Date:       2003-03-18 7:12:54
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Max Bian wrote:
> 
> --- Jan Van Belle <Jan.Van_Belle@alcatel.be> wrote:
> 
> > I hope someone can help me with this one. Every (read:
> > EVERY) time I want to compile Xforms (the official release
> > 1.0) on a system, it complains in the fdesign directory that
> > it cannot find the Xpm library. This while I am sure that it
> > is on it's place, since I installed Xfree86 4.2.0 or 4.3.0 .
> 
> It is just a matter of adding "-L/path/to/lib -lXpm".  You should
> probably keep in mind that building package is not just
> "./configure;make;make install", or "xmkmf -a; make; make install".
> 
> > The only time I had no problems was when I installed the
> > Xserver in a non-default directory (/opt/X11R6 instead of
> > /usr/X11R6) and modified that in the top-Imakefile.
> 
> If that's the case, a sybmol link would be enough to solve that.
> 
> Also, fdesign is for programmers. If you just need the library, you can
> skip it.

That was the trick. It's no real solution but it helps !!

Kind regards,

Jan

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