From: Shad Van Den Hul (alose@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 17:34:57 EST
Alan McConnell wrote:
> I believe that this problem is an old and common one; my apologies for
> disturbing everyone with it.
>
> I am running Linux, Mandrake 8.2. I have downloader abiword-1.0.3.tar.gz,
> put it in a directory under /root, and unpacked it as per usual; I have
> run first autogen.sh and then configure, and these run fine.
>
> But then when I run make I get the following error:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXi
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[5]: *** [AbiWord_s] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/root/abiword/abiword-1.0.3/abi/src/wp/main/unix'
>
> Now here is the record of the command: ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.a /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6@
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so@ /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6.0*
>
> and here is a record of the command: grep Xi GNU*
> GNUmakefile:GTK_LIBS = -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm
>
> Thanks in advance for all help/advice/suggestions.
>
> Alan McConnell
>
Install the XFree86-devel rpms. There has been some threads on the list
regarding this.
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