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

[Mark Spieth]

>
> 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 Has it been replaced by xorg-x11-devel (which is installed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?
>
it should be in /etc/ld.so.conf
then run ldconfig
if its not then your FC4 is broken.
mark