Adrian Rollett wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:
> 
> > >> I was trying to get afterstep installed and it insisted on libXpm.4.7
> > >> which I found somewhere and ran through the installer to get it into
> > >> netbsd.  afterstep still doesnt see the lib and whats more I can't find
> > >> it myself so I can add it to my path. 
> > >
> > >Note: You won't add the library to your PATH variable as that's not used
> > >for libs. Your LDPATH (or something like that) will need the change.
> > >
> > 
> > Hmm...I wonder if this the answer to a question I haven't posted here 
> > yet.  I am trying to compile xearth, but I got a message that there was 
> > no file or directory X11/Xos.h.  I checked the soure at the line 
> > indicated in the error message and it is "#include <X11/Xos.h>.  So I 
> > changed the "#include" to the full pathname of the header file.  That 
> > just got me another error message about another header file that is in 
> > the same directory as Xos.h.  I was going to change that reference too, 
> > but it occurred to me that this is probably not normal behavior and is 
> > probably the result of something I don't have set correctly.  Is the 
> > thing I don't have set correctly the "LDPATH (or something like that)" 
> > mentioned above?
> > 
> 
> Either go into the makefile and add the path to this file (usually
> /usr/X11R6/include or /usr/local/X11R6/include depending on where you
> installed X ) or manually do the cc with a -I/usr/local/X11R6/include in
> the command line.

Ack!  Definitely do the latter, not the former.  In all reality, you've
probably forgotten to do an 'xmkmf', most X applications require doing
this before you compile, but once you have done so, compiling them is a
breeze ;-)

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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