Re: Compiling gnome-core-0-13

[John R Sheets <dusk smsi-roman com>]

Well, I snooped around www.xfree86.org and discovered that the libXxf86misc.a
file is in x32prog.tgz (in the intel, X version 3.2 distribution).  I
extracted the file and dropped it into (as I recall) /usr/X11/lib.  Compiled
fine, but I don't know if it's still missing any other X files (pardon the
pun).  Haven't gotten gnome running yet.  (c:

Anyway, the library does exist in Xfree86 3.2....

John

JB wrote:

> John R Sheets <dusk@smsi-roman.com> said:
> > While compiling in desktop-properties, gcc hits an error looking for
> > the Xxf86misc library path (the compiler switch is, as best as I
> > can recall, -lXxf86misc).  I think the source file had something
> > to do with a mouse.
>
> I'm having tha same problem. Same system, etc., etc. Most annoying.
> I had a look at the XFree site but nothing there. Maybe it's a red-hat
> thing. Anyway, I was hopin you'd pass on any info you discover about this
> and I'll do the same. The investigations continues...