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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Spencer Ogden said:
> spencer@home:~$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
> /usr/local/lib
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /usr/lib
> /lib
> spencer@home:~$ locate libX11
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2
> spencer@home:~$ ld -lX11
> ld: cannot find -lX11
>
>
> I thought that would work as well, but it seems ld.so.conf only deals
> with  runtime library loading. The configure script of gtk+2 fails
> because it  can find libX11. I assume it is doing something like `ld
> -lX11`, which  doesn't seem to be influenced by ld.so.conf.
>
> Spencer

Perhaps you are having the FreeType problem.

rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.so*

That should fix it.  It has been fixed in the xfree86 spell for a while
now (in devel, what grimoire are you using?)

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