cannot find -lX11

[Guda]

I am getting these errors on a few of our 64bit boxes, anyone have any clues?


make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

 

[chirpy]

You don't say which OS you're using, which would help. If you're using an rpm based system, check that the XFree86-devel rpm is installed as that is the rpm those files belong to.

 

[hyphyent]

im having this same problem... was it ever solved? and how?

 

[webignition]

You don't say which OS you're using, which would help. If you're using an rpm based system, check that the XFree86-devel rpm is installed as that is the rpm those files belong to.

A little off topic this may be, but any suggestion on where to get the XFree/XFree-devel RPMs for CentOS 4.3 X86_64?

 

[AndyReed]

A little off topic this may be, but any suggestion on where to get the XFree/XFree-devel RPMs for CentOS 4.3 X86_64?

CentOS 4.3 X86_64 is real pain, the vast majority of the time. Are these the only missing libraries or are there more?
In any case you can get XFree-devel RPMs from this site: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=XFree86-devel

 

[webignition]

CentOS 4.3 X86_64 is real pain, the vast majority of the time. Are these the only missing libraries or are there more?
In any case you can get XFree-devel RPMs from this site: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=XFree86-devel

Cheers Andy!

Yes, I know CentOS 4.3 X86_64 is a real pain!

I did try rpmfind.net before, however I was only searching for 'XFree' and that didn't find many RPMs (only 3!). I guess I didn't try searching for 'XFree-devel', thinking that a search for 'XFree' would do the trick.

I'm not actually missing these libs, but merely seem to have a problem and wanted to force a reinstall of them as I'm encountering some errors when configuring a separate PHP5 installation. I didn't bring that up here since it wasn't related to the thread.

The actual errors I'm getting that cause the configure of PHP 5.1.2 to fail are:

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a when searching for -lX11

although this isn't a problem specific to PHP.

 

[chirpy]

No, no need to go to rpmfind at all

Those modules changed from XFree86 to xorg-x11 from v3 to v4 of the RH OS. So the rpms you need from yum are:

xorg-x11-libs
xorg-x11-devel

Available directly for your OS from:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.3/os/x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/

 

[webignition]

No, no need to go to rpmfind at all

Those modules changed from XFree86 to xorg-x11 from v3 to v4 of the RH OS. So the rpms you need from yum are:

xorg-x11-libs
xorg-x11-devel

Available directly for your OS from:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.3/os/x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/

Thanks!

I believe those RPMs are listed in WHM, so I'll try installing from there to start with ...