On Jul 10,  1:45pm, Bevis Peters wrote:
> Subject: X compiling query
> Now compiling X code on my work alpha / DEC i can use the line "cc blah
-lX11"
> and #include <X11/Xlib.h> sort of thing in the code, and all is fine. This
> does not work on RBSD, though. "-lX11" gives an error. I have to run this
> code on a variety of platforms, and so I cannot explicitly put the pathname
> in the #include lines, and putting a "-I/usr/X11R6/include (or whatever)"
> does not seem to work. In short, how do I set this "X11" type variable?

According to the X consortium the Right Thing to do here is use an Imakefile
and xmkmf. This will pick up any local include paths.

Cheers

Rob

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