Re: [Texmacs-dev] Cannot find Xext

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:55:08PM +0200, Henri Lesourd wrote:
> I get the following error while compiling TeXmacs :
> [[
> /home/henri/bin/usrbin/../lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld:
>  
> cannot find -lXext
> ]]
> 
> 
> Question : how is it that we now depend on Xext ? Since when ?

This dependency always existed. Xext comes with Xlib.

> On not-so-old Linux versions, Xext doesn't exists by itself, and thus one is
> forced to use a really recent version of Linux to be able to compile 
> TeXmacs.
> 
> This is not so cool ;(...

Maybe Xlib has changed. Maybe you did not install
the required X development libraries.

Best wishes, Joris