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During make gnome-panel-2.6.0 I get cannot find -lXRes

I'm trying to compile and install gnome-panel-2.6.0. I got pas the ./configure but during make I get:

Code:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXRes

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make[5]: *** [wnck-applet] Error 1

make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/pathfinder/Downloads/Gnome/gnome-panel-2.6.0/applets/wncklet'

make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/pathfinder/Downloads/Gnome/gnome-panel-2.6.0/applets/wncklet'

make[3]: *** [all] Error 2

make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/pathfinder/Downloads/Gnome/gnome-panel-2.6.0/applets/wncklet'

make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pathfinder/Downloads/Gnome/gnome-panel-2.6.0/applets'

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pathfinder/Downloads/Gnome/gnome-panel-2.6.0'

make: *** [all] Error 2

I can't find anything on IXRes anywhere... Anyone know what this means?

Thanks in advance

It cant find the xres library

Check if you got a file libXRes.a mines located in /usr/X11R6/lib
If not you will have to install it should be on your distro cd

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed. I installed the XFree static devel libraries and now I'm good. I'm curious, how did you know what file i needed?

-l means its linking to whatever library is written after in other words -lxres means its looking for xres library i just did a search on my own machine with locate and found that library file.