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: "Tom Scogland" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 07:45:52 -0500
Any chance you could send the configure.in and configure in question?
If that doesn't work, and for that matter if the current version of
autoconf that ships with leopard doesn't work, it's a good chance
they're doing something funky in that file.
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Ben Aurel <email@hidden> wrote:
> Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>
>> Try passing --with-x-include=/usr/X11/include --with-x-lib=/usr/X11/lib to
>> configure.
>
> thanks for the tip, but it doesn' work. same error "checking for X... no
> configure: error: *** Can't find X11 headers and libs"
>
>
> -----------------------log ./configure --with-x ... -----------------------
>
> ratpoison-1.4.3 $ ./configure --with-x-include=/usr/X11/include
> --with-x-lib=/usr/X11/lib
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for nawk... no
> checking for awk... awk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking build system type... i686-apple-darwin9.4.0
> checking host system type... i686-apple-darwin9.4.0
> checking whether to enable debugging... no
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
> checking terminal emulator... xterm
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for X... no
> configure: error: *** Can't find X11 headers and libs
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On Jul 7, 2008, at 02:41, Ben Aurel wrote:
>>
>>> hi
>>>
>>> I try to build ratpoison from source on mac os x 10.5.4 (Intel).
>>>
>>> - the latest X11 package is installed X112.2.3 (
>>> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.2.3)
>>>
>>> - installation of the latest ratpoison (1.4.3):
>>> -- $ mkdir -p ~/installs/ratpoison
>>> -- $ wget
>>>
>>> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ratpoison/ratpoison-1.4.3.tar.gz
>>> -- $ tar xfvz ratpoison-1.4.3.tar.gz && cd ratpoison-1.4.3
>>> -- $ ./configure
>>> ....
>>> configure: error: *** Can't find X11 headers and libs
>>>
>>> (for the complete ./configure output see at the bottom of the email)
>>>
>>> What can be done here?
>>> - specify the path of headers and libs?
>>> - installing a devel version of X11?
>>> - ... ?
>>>
>>> thanks for your help with this.
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>> complete output of ./configure:
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>>> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
>>> checking for gawk... no
>>> checking for mawk... no
>>> checking for nawk... no
>>> checking for awk... awk
>>> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>>> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles...
>>> no
>>> checking build system type... i686-apple-darwin9.4.0
>>> checking host system type... i686-apple-darwin9.4.0
>>> checking whether to enable debugging... no
>>> checking for gcc... gcc
>>> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>>> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>>> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>>> checking for suffix of executables...
>>> checking for suffix of object files... o
>>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>>> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>>> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>>> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
>>> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
>>> checking terminal emulator... xterm
>>> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
>>> checking for X... no
>>> configure: error: *** Can't find X11 headers and libs
>>
>>
>
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