Top of the morning everyone,

I am trying to install YaMT ( Yet another metabar )

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=21168

and I keep running into the same problem:

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 think I have found the answer to my question, but I am entering something incorrectly into the konsole:

./configure --x-include=/etc/X11/ CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/X11R6/lib

Where /usr/X11R6/lib contains the libXext files

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Thanks
Eric.

I don't know if that will help you, but I had a similar problem with Xext when trying to compile kchmviewer. I ended being able to compile it when I added the --with-kde option.

You may want to have a look at the following
- in /usr/X11R6/lib to confirm you have libXext* libraries
- /etc/ld.so.conf lists /usr/X11R6/lib
- ldconfig --print-cache lists libXext*

Besides, I'd like to point that your configure command line contains errors. You seem to be confusing includes (*.h, -I adds search path for includes) files with libraries (*.so, -L adds search path for libraries). You probably meant to do the following:

--x-include=/usr/X11R6/include CFLAGS=-L/usr/X11R6/lib


Hope that helps.

Afternoon Futhark,

I checked the /etc/ld.so.conf, and I have the following: /usr/X11R6/lib. That should be enough, eh?

I tried to compile again with the same result:

Results in:
Any ideas as to what I am missing? I found a couple of pages regarding this issue, but I cannot seem to follow them, I am still a bit new at this.

Much in the way of thanks,
Eric.

Have you confirmed you have all of the following files?
Something tells me you don't have /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.a. If that's the case, try installing xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2, then reconfigure.

Today I've tried to explain someone how to solve that type of problem. Maybe it can be of some help to you.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...44#post2202344