Re: [RP] problem building ratpoison

[Trent Buck]

Quoth Jay Cotton on or about 2004-09-22:

> I'm having trouble building ratpoison 1.3 on both Redhat Fedora and 
> Debian linux. When I run ./configure, it can't seem to find the X11 
> headers and libs. So I tried changing my command to the following:
> 
> So I add --disable-history to my command, which gets the next error:
> 
> *** Can't find libX11
> 
> Anybody know how to deal with this? Thanks in advance,

Have you installed the *development* libraries?  I suspect you have
e.g. libx11 installed but not libx11-dev.

I can mail you debian packages of CVS ratpoison if you like.

-trent