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- From: lhawkins@annie.wellesley.edu (R. Lee Hawkins)
- Subject: Re: Contrib. X clients for Ultrix v4.3/X11R4?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.042925.28225@olaf.wellesley.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 04:29:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.174356.23671@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
- >> Make: Don't know how to make /usr/lib/libXext.a. Stop.
- >>
- >>If there is a way around this error, that would be fine too.
- >
- >I don't know why some contrib software has Imakefiles that seem to generate
- >Makefiles with this problem, but I've never really looked at it.
- >
- >Simple solution: edit the Makefile, find the line that says something like:
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- Even easier solution that I adopted just after posting:
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- ln -s /usr/lib/libXext.a /usr/lib/libXext-mit.a
- ln -s /usr/lib/libX11.a /usr/lib/libX11-mit.a
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- Worked like a charm...
-
- Cheers,
- --Lee
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