Re: configure error: "Can't find X11 headers and libs"
Re: configure error: "Can't find X11 headers and libs"
- Subject: Re: configure error: "Can't find X11 headers and libs"
- From: Itai Seggev <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 19:18:25 -0500
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 07:03:21PM +0200, Piotr Grzybowski wrote:
> On 7/7/08, Ben Aurel <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Before I proceed a side question:
> > what's the difference between /usr/X11 and /usr/X11R6? Why not reference to
> > X11R6?
>
> #ls -ld /usr/X11R6
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 xxxx xxxx 3 Jul 3 00:07 /usr/X11R6 -> X11
> the difference is: one is a link to the other :)
> i belive that R stands for Release. possibly a compatibility issue,
> and a nice tradition, from old times ;-).
Yes, the R6 stands for "Release 6". X11 was on release 6 from 1994 to 2005, or
about 2/3 of its life time up to that point. Thus, many people got used to
assuming that X would live in /usr/X11R6. (I fondly :) remember having
multiple X servers installed on a Solaris box in the mid-to-late 90's and
trying to keep them all playing nice with each other....) With R7, they've
tried to integrate X into the normal /usr hierarchacy and get rid of a special
X11 directory. On linux systems with enforced policies (like Debian) this has
actually happened. But it takes a while for such things to propogate, so such
links are used to maximize compatability.
--
Itai
Itai Seggev, Knox College, Mathematics Department
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