detailed question about X11 library

[nathan r. hruby]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, John Klinck wrote:

> 
>   I am not sure this is the right group for this question, but here goes:
> 


Not really.. if the ncar folks have a list, that might get you a better 
answer then the one I'm going to give you :)

>   I am trying to install a graphics package from the National Center for
> Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the ncar graphics library. Most of the
> package installs and works except that part which displays the results. That
> is, that converts the cgm graphics file to an X11 window.
> 
>   (I am using the laptop to do some work at a remote location and the
>   programs I am using have a long history and have used ncar graphics for a
>   while. Please don't suggest that I use another graphic package as the
>   recoding time is prohibitive.)
> 

Understandable, no need to aplogize.

>   There are several routines that fail the compile, so I am only showing one
> below (the smallest). The function open_log fails during a link to the X11
> library. It is not clear in the source code why X11 is involved.  I have not
> gotten the X11 source code to see where and what this is. Does anyone
> recognize what this problem might be?
> 
>   I was able to install this software on YDL 2.1 (about a year ago). It also
> installs on my Sun workstation running Solaris.
> 
>   Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
> 

Here's dumb question: Do you have the XFree86-devel packages installed? 
you can 'rpm -q Free86-devel' to find out.

If not "apt-get install XFree86-devel" (or "yup install blah" for older 
systems) would be a first step.

HTH,

-n
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