[mythtv] /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext

Simon Crute simon-mythdev at geordie.demon.co.uk
Mon Apr 10 06:13:05 UTC 2006


On Friday 07 April 2006 19:51, Frank Lautenbach wrote:
> yes I know this is already explained in the troubleshooting section of
> the mythtv build howto. But : I can't find the XFree-devel
> package for Fedora Core 4 anywhere! Seems to me that this package is
> deprecated? Has it been replaced by xorg-x11-devel (which is installed
> on my machine) ?
>
> What can I do? Thanks for your help!

Not sure why you're getting that on fedora, but on suse linux 10.0 I had the 
same problem. 

Adding LIBS *= -L/usr/X11R6/lib to the settings.pro file seemed to sort it 
out. 

-- 
Simon Crute


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