problem during ./configure
 

When compiling amarok 1.3.1 from source, i got the following error:

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

I solved this by:
./configure --x-includes='/usr/X11/include' --x-libraries='/usr/X11/lib'

which are the usual locations of these dependencies.

But then I got another error:

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.

I have no idea of how to correct this.
Furthermore, i have the files libXext.so.6 and libXext.so.6.4
in /usr/X11R6/lib ....!

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Filipe

just edit your /etc/ld.so.conf file and include the needed $PATH variables

/usr/X11/include/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib

and then re-source it..........

I don't think ldconfig and /etc/ld.so.conf have anything to do with the $PATH or any other environment variable. When you run ldconfig it goes through the entries in /etc/ld.so.conf (and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/) and uses those to update the /etc/ld.so.cache file, which in turn is used by the ld.so run-time linker.

Environment variables are set in /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc and so on and although the ld.so linker will pay attention to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, if its set, this has nothing to do with ldconfig or /etc/ld.so.conf. See man ldconfig man ld.so

/etc/ld.so.conf is only for directories which have libraries, the linking system can't do anything with include files :)



Well on my Mandriva system, which claims to be FHS and LSB compliant, its /usr/X11R6/include/ for the includes and /usr/X11R6/lib/ for the libs. Assuming those are the correct locations its probably just that the configure script was written before the FHS standard or something like that.


You're pointing the configure script to /usr/X11/lib - why are you pointing it there if you're X library files are in /usr/X11R6/lib? What's actually in /usr/X11/lib?

You need to install the xorg development libraries and then configure amarok as follows,