FVWM: Fvwm, AIX and X11 problems

From: Brian Howard '00 <bhoward00_at_westminster.pvt.k12.ct.us>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:13:35 -0400

I am running the latest version of AIX (4.3.3) and the default X11
configuration that was installed on my machine with AIX. I am now trying
to install fvwm, and running into problems. Although configuration would
succeed, compilation would fail on a missing shape.h, which is an X11
extension. Simply adding the file is useless, since you would be trading
a compilation error for a linking error. I tried using the
--disable-shape option, which worked for fvwm itself, allowing it to
compile, but none of the extras would compile without it. I also later
installed xpm, and now fvwm itself won't compile, I suspect because the
xpm requires these extra libraries. After much google research, I found
that shape.h is associated with libXext, and that the X11 setup included
in AIX lacks several of teh extensions and libraries included in a normal
X11 install. Attempts to find a patch or update to bring AIX up to speed,
as well as attempts to find a full X11 AIX binary failed. Short of
reinstalling X11 myself, does anyone have any ideas for what could be done
to fix this problem?


Thanks,
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Brian Howard
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