X11 Path - F9

[fatnic]

Hello all. 2-day Fedora newb here!

I'm currently having quite a bit if trouble manually compiling a downloaded app and trying to find the path to my X11 libraries (I think!)

At first I ran

./configure

and kept getting the message

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X libraries. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

So then after a bit of digging tried

./configure --x-includes=/etc/X11/ --x-libraries=/etc/X11/

as I assumed /etc/X11/ was the correct path. Obviously not as I now get

checking for X... libraries /etc/X11/, headers /etc/X11/
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... no
checking for libXext... no
configure: error: We need a working libXext to proceed. Since configure
can't find it itself, we stop here assuming that make wouldn't find
them either.

So, what is the correct path?

[newiLuvatar]

if want to compile sth against x11, you probably need the devel-packages, so for starters try installing libXext and libXext-devel
p.s. the correct path is probably sth like /usr/share/X11/, /etc should only be used for config-files (if i'm not mistaken)

[glennzo]

What are you trying to compile?

[fatnic]

Quanta web development app.

I've just found it in gpk-application but would still like to be able to manually add apps.

I tried using /usr/share/X11 but no joy with that either. Still missing libXext and yum says already installed.

[glennzo]

[glenn@coolhand ~]$ locate libXext
/usr/lib/libXext.so.6
/usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
/usr/share/doc/libXext-1.0.4
/usr/share/doc/libXext-1.0.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXext-1.0.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libXext-1.0.4/ChangeLog

[markkuk]

You need libXext-devel and probably other -devel packages. ./configure will find the headers and libraries without any extra options if the necessary packages are installed.

[fatnic]

OK. We're getting closer.

Now I get

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!

Tried to install qt3-devel but now I get a load of dependency issues.

libSM-devel-1.0.2-5.fc9.i386 from fedora has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libSM = 1.0.2-5.fc9 is needed by package libSM-devel-1.0.2-5.fc9.i386 (fedora)
mesa-libGLU-devel-7.1-0.29.fc9.i386 from fedora has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: mesa-libGLU = 7.1-0.29.fc9 is needed by package mesa-libGLU-devel-7.1-0.29.fc9.i386 (fedora)
freetype-devel-2.3.5-4.fc9.i386 from fedora has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: freetype = 2.3.5-4.fc9 is needed by package freetype-devel-2.3.5-4.fc9.i386 (fedora)
2:libpng-devel-1.2.24-1.fc9.i386 from fedora has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libpng = 2:1.2.24-1.fc9 is needed by package 2:libpng-devel-1.2.24-1.fc9.i386 (fedora)
qt3-devel-3.3.8b-12.fc9.i386 from fedora has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: qt3 = 3.3.8b-12.fc9 is needed by package qt3-devel-3.3.8b-12.fc9.i386 (fedora)
Error: Missing Dependency: libpng = 2:1.2.24-1.fc9 is needed by package 2:libpng-devel-1.2.24-1.fc9.i386 (fedora)
Error: Missing Dependency: freetype = 2.3.5-4.fc9 is needed by package freetype-devel-2.3.5-4.fc9.i386 (fedora)
Error: Missing Dependency: mesa-libGLU = 7.1-0.29.fc9 is needed by package mesa-libGLU-devel-7.1-0.29.fc9.i386 (fedora)
Error: Missing Dependency: qt3 = 3.3.8b-12.fc9 is needed by package qt3-devel-3.3.8b-12.fc9.i386 (fedora)
Error: Missing Dependency: libSM = 1.0.2-5.fc9 is needed by package libSM-devel-1.0.2-5.fc9.i386 (fedora)

I still can't understand the reason the X things arn't being discovered automatically.

[newiLuvatar]

why not installing qt4?

[Hlingler]

Originally Posted by newiLuvatar

why not installing qt4?

In F9, that should be simply qt (which should be REV. 4.x+), and he'll need qt-devel also.

qt3 and qt3-devel only if the app to compile requires such.

For the record, the --x-includes PATH should be /usr/include/... and --x-libraries PATH is /usr/lib/..., and the compiler should indeed find them all by itself - if they exist.

V

[markkuk]

Originally Posted by fatnic

I still can't understand the reason the X things arn't being discovered automatically.

If they don't exist on your system they can't be discovered. Install the required packages first.

[JohnVV]

and did you read the files " README " and "INSTALL " in the source folder for a list of REQUIRED software that MUST be installed first .
and when you install the -devel you also need to install the regular package
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