Re: cannot find -lX11

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 9 March 2011 01:41, Iain Morgan <Iain.Morgan%nasa.gov@localhost> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm new to pkgsrc (I've only been playing around with it for a few days)
> but I seem to have run into a problem with it on an x86_64 SLES 10
> (Linux) system. From various searches, it looks like this problem has
> cropped up before, but I haven't seen a solution.
>
> For whatever reason, the build process does not seem to be correctly linking
> against libX11.so. I note for example that ~/pkg/share/x11-links/ has lib/
> directory containing symlinks to the systems's 32-bit libraries, but there 
> isn't
> a lib64 directory.
>
> libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. 
> -I/nobackupp10/imorgan/pkgsrc/graphics/aalib/work/.buildlink/include 
> -Wno-error -Wno-format -fno-builtin 
> -I/nobackupp10/imorgan/pkgsrc/graphics/aalib/work/.x11-buildlink/include -c 
> aarecfunc.c -o aarecfunc.o >/dev/null 2>&1
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -Wno-error -Wno-format -fno-builtin 
> -I/home4/imorgan/pkg/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/home4/imorgan/pkg/lib 
> -Wl,-R/home4/imorgan/pkg/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib64 -o 
> libaa.la -rpath /home4/imorgan/pkg/lib -L/home4/imorgan/pkg/lib 
> -Wl,-R/home4/imorgan/pkg/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib64 
> -version-info 1:4:0 aafont.lo aafonts.lo aavyhen.lo aamktabl.lo aamem.lo  
> aaprintf.lo aahelp.lo aaslnkbd.lo aaslang.lo aafastre.lo aalinux.lo  
> aalinuxkbd.lo aax.lo aaxkbd.lo aaxmouse.lo fontgl.lo font16.lo  font14.lo 
> fontx16.lo fontx13.lo fontx13b.lo fontcour.lo aarec.lo  font9.lo font8.lo 
> fontline.lo aacurses.lo aacurkbd.lo aacurmou.lo  aalib.lo aaflush.lo 
> aarender.lo aaout.lo aain.lo aaedit.lo aaregist.lo  aakbdreg.lo aagpm.lo 
> aamoureg.lo aasave.lo aastdout.lo aastdin.lo  aaparse.lo aaimgwidth.lo 
> aaimgheight.lo aascrwidth.lo aascrheight.lo  aammwidth.lo aammheight.lo 
> aaimage.lo aatext.lo aacurrfnt.lo aaattrs.lo  aaputpixel.lo aarecfunc.lo  -lm 
>    -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -lX11
> libtool: link: gcc -shared  .libs/aafont.o .libs/aafonts.o .libs/aavyhen.o 
> .libs/aamktabl.o .libs/aamem.o .libs/aaprintf.o .libs/aahelp.o 
> .libs/aaslnkbd.o .libs/aaslang.o .libs/aafastre.o .libs/aalinux.o 
> .libs/aalinuxkbd.o .libs/aax.o .libs/aaxkbd.o .libs/aaxmouse.o .libs/fontgl.o 
> .libs/font16.o .libs/font14.o .libs/fontx16.o .libs/fontx13.o 
> .libs/fontx13b.o .libs/fontcour.o .libs/aarec.o .libs/font9.o .libs/font8.o 
> .libs/fontline.o .libs/aacurses.o .libs/aacurkbd.o .libs/aacurmou.o 
> .libs/aalib.o .libs/aaflush.o .libs/aarender.o .libs/aaout.o .libs/aain.o 
> .libs/aaedit.o .libs/aaregist.o .libs/aakbdreg.o .libs/aagpm.o 
> .libs/aamoureg.o .libs/aasave.o .libs/aastdout.o .libs/aastdin.o 
> .libs/aaparse.o .libs/aaimgwidth.o .libs/aaimgheight.o .libs/aascrwidth.o 
> .libs/aascrheight.o .libs/aammwidth.o .libs/aammheight.o .libs/aaimage.o 
> .libs/aatext.o .libs/aacurrfnt.o .libs/aaattrs.o .libs/aaputpixel.o 
> .libs/aarecfunc.o   
> -L/nobackupp10/imorgan/pkgsrc/graphics/aalib/work/.buildlink/lib 
> -L/nobackupp10/imorgan/pkgsrc/graphics/aalib/work/.x11-buildlink/lib64 -lm 
> -lX11  -Wl,-R/home4/imorgan/pkg/lib   -Wl,-soname -Wl,libaa.so.1 -o 
> .libs/libaa.so.1.0.4
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
> cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in 
> /nobackupp10/imorgan/pkgsrc/graphics/aalib/work/aalib-1.4.0/src
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in /nobackupp10/imorgan/pkgsrc/graphics/aalib/work/aalib-1.4.0
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in /nobackup/imorgan/pkgsrc/graphics/aalib
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in /nobackup/imorgan/pkgsrc/graphics/aalib
>
> Replacing the symlinks in work/.buildlink/lib with ones pointing to the 64-bit
> libraries and (for good measure) adding a link for libX11.so does the trick, 
> but
> I would think there should be a better way.
>
> Is there anything I can add to the mk.conf (or some other file) to address 
> this?
>
> --
> Iain Morgan
>
> PS: My apologies for raising an issue which appears to have been raised 
> beofre.

Did you ever resolve this? Just tried building graphics/aalib on a
RHEL x86_64 system without issues (as a lightly related datapoint).