Re: tlug: Can't compile Arena

[Jason Molenda <crash@example.com>]

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tlug note from Jason Molenda <crash@example.com>
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> /wutil.o -static ../../Image/jpeg/linux/libjpeg.a ../../Image/libpng/linux/libpng.a ../../Image/zlib/linux/libz.a -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -L../../Library/linux -lwww -lm 
> /usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [../../Arena/linux/arena] Error 1
> 
>   Is it significant?


Yep, you don't have a static X11 library on your system (for whatever
reason), so this link command fails.  A static X11 library would be called
something like libX11.a.  You only have shared ones, libX11.so*.

Just pull out the -static--I would guess they put this in there so that
you could redistribute the resulting binary without having to include all
the various libraries that are linked in.

(sorry, I forgot to include *why* I was asking about -static in my first
note :-)

Jason
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