[EMBOSS] Problems installing on Enterprise

[Luke McCarthy]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 13:05, Clinton Fernandes wrote:

> I have recently upgraded my RedHat 9.0 workstation to Enterprise. Under RH 9.0
> EMBOSS installed without problems. However, on Enterprise I get to following
> errors when issuing the "make" command:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [aaindexextract] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

You need to install the XFree86-devel rpm.  This rpm contains
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a, which is the file that -lX11 translates to (a
static version of the X11 library...)

> There is no /etc/X11 directory. I have been told that this is now /etc/X11R6,
> and I made a symbolic link to that directory (/etc/X11) but get the same error.
> /usr/bin/ld does exist and no errors arise under "configure". 

Remove the link you created.  Nothing in /etc has anything to do with
this problem.

Cheers,

Luke McCarthy
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Luke McCarthy
Research Officer, Bioinformatics
Department of Computer Science
University of Saskatchewan
mccarthy at cs.usask.ca