[Xastir] Can't find X11 Libraries on new OS X 10.3 install

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Wed Dec 17 11:52:30 EST 2003


On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> > I reinstalled a fresh copy of Mac OS X 10.3.1 and X11 1.0 using XFree86
> > 4.3.0. Fink shows the placeholder installed properly and I see X11
> > stuff at /usr/X11R6/ and /sw/lib/X11/
> >
> > I get the following error while running configure with either current
> > CVS, developer release, or stable release of 1.2.x
> >
> > checking for X... no
> > configure: error: *** Cannot find X11 libraries:  Please Install
> > X-Windows ***
> >
> > I know X11 is working because I even tried compiling in an xterm window.
> >
> > I have all the other possible mandatory and optional libraries compiled
> > and installed ready to go. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> You're probably missing the X11 or the Motif/Lesstif header files.
> On Linux, mine are in /usr/X11R6/include/X11 and
> /usr/X11R6/include/Xm.

Look in config.log and see what the last thing you see is.

> It's an often uninstalled thing on Linux.  They're usually called
> X11-devel and Motif-devel/Lesstif/devel.  Not sure what the packages
> would be called on MacOSX though.

darwinports has openmotif and lesstif; I've never used fink.



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