[EMBOSS] OS X install fails with "ld: can't locate file for: -lX11"

[Andres Pinzon]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:47:12 -0500, Robin Colgrove
<robin at hms.harvard.edu> wrote:

> My knowledge of these things is rudimentary, but the error seems to be
> complaining about not finding X11, but that can't be right, since I
> have
> X11 1.0 - XFree86 4.3.0
> and have been using it for other programs like Phred/Phrap/Consed.
> 
> Does anyone know what this error means and how to fix it?

Sure, all you have to do is to install the development (devel)
libraries for xfree86, (something like Xfree86-4.3.9-devel.....), some
systems doesnt install this libraries by default, since are not
commonly used, some others dont even provide them (red hat, for
instance).
In fact you have 2 possibilities, the first one is to install the
development packages for your Xfree86 version (as ialready commented),
the other one is to install EMBOSS without X support:
                      ./configure --without-x

With this option you wont have problems with the X stystem but EMBOS
will not be able to plot imges in the X windows system (used by
plotorf, for example).

This is the command i run once i installed the devel packages:

   ./configure --with-pngdriver=/usr/lib/ --prefix=/usr/local/emboss

Ok, i hope this will help you.
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