Re: DDD installation on mandrake linux 9.0 problems?

[J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 16:25:51 -0700, Srikanth Arekapudi wrote:
> I am getting the following messages at the end
> checking for xmUseVersion in -lXm... no
> checking for XmInstallImage in -lXm... no
> checking for Xm21InstallImage in -lXm... no
> configure: error: The Motif library '-lXm' could not
> be found.

> and it looks like I have the Xm libraries.

No. You have the _runtime_ libraries. That's not sufficient to compile/link
code against them.

> ls -l `locate libXm`

Notice how libXm.so (no trailing version number) is not among that. That's
the only thing (besides .a) which the linker looks for.

Does Mandrake have a "lesstif-dev" RPM or similar? That's the one you need.

HTH,
Ray
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