"Brian Howard '00" <bhoward00_at_westminster.pvt.k12.ct.us> writes:
> 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?
I ran into similar problems with AIX compiling another X application.
The libraries were initially missing but our support staff found and
installed them. Unfortunatly, I don't remember what they had to do.
On my AIX 4.3 system, I see libXext.a in:
monstro> find /usr/lpp/X11/lib -name 'libXext*' -print
/usr/lpp/X11/lib/R6/libXext.a
/usr/lpp/X11/lib/R6/inst_updt/libXext.a
/usr/lpp/X11/lib/R5/libXext.a
Hope that helps.
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Received on Fri Jun 22 2001 - 12:22:29 BST