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

[Frank Lautenbach]

Monday, April 10, 2006, 8:13:05 AM, you wrote:

SC> 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 Has it been replaced by xorg-x11-devel (which is installed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!

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

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

Hi Simon,

that works for me! Many thanks!

Development team : Does it make sense to add this line on default?


Bests,

Frank Lautenbach