I'm trying to compile a program with the following extremely simple makefile:

gcc <prog1>.c <prog2>.c -o <program> -lX11

but it's failing to link in the X11 libraries. I'm not too sure how to resolve this my /etc/ld.so.conf has the line /usr/lib/X11 and I have re-run ldconfig but nothing seems to work.

Any help appreciated

Flibble

Sorted it out myself.

Still don't know why this failed with the default though.

Makefile is:

gcc xscan.c snoop.c -o xscan -lX11

which means its trying to link in with libX11.a

So I locate the file:

locate libX11.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a

Then I check /etc/ld.so.conf

cat /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/kerberos/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib/qt-3.0.5/lib
/usr/lib/wine
/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib/sane
/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib
/usr/lib/X11
/usr/local/freetds

OK so the directory is there (2nd line), so why isn't ld finding it?

As stated in my previous post I had already run ldconfig but it had no effect.

Changing the Makefile to:

gcc xscan.c snoop.c -o xscan -L /usr/X11R6/lib/ -lX11

worked fine.

Incidentally this is OK as I work in my companies security team and we are authorised to go poking around our own servers for vulnerabilities. ;>

Flibble