[EMBOSS] EMBOSS on osx 10.3

Brett Kaufman brettkaufman at videotron.ca
Fri Dec 19 01:35:13 UTC 2003


Georg,
How were you installing emboss, from fink or by what method?

Were there errors earlier in the install?

I have emboss running on 10.3, so far, so good.  Have you might need 
full dev tools and x11 sdk.

-Brett
On 18-Dec-03, at 11:18 AM, Georg Otto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to compile EMBOSS on a new computer running Mac OSX
> 10.3 unfortunately, the compile process aborts with the
> error message:
>
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -O2   -o aaindexextract
>  aaindexextract.o ../nucleus/libnucleus.la
> ../ajax/libajaxg.la ../ajax/libajax.la
> ../plplot/libplplot.la -lX11  -lm
> gcc -O2 -o .libs/aaindexextract aaindexextract.o
>  ../nucleus/.libs/libnucleus.dylib
> ../ajax/.libs/libajaxg.dylib ../ajax/.libs/libajax.dylib
> ../plplot/.libs/libplplot.dylib -lX11 -lm
> ld: can't locate file for: -lX11
> make[2]: *** [aaindexextract] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
>
> As I understand, EMBOSS has problems with Mac´s X11. Is
> there any way to get around this.
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Georg
>
> -- 
> Georg Wilhelm Otto
> Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology
> Department 3 - Genetics
> Spemannstrasse 35
> D-72076 Tuebingen (Germany)
> phone:   +49-7071-601393
> e-mail: georg.otto at tuebingen.mpg.de
>




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