[Bug: 21.5-b31] [semi-solved] configure does not like my Xaw3d lib

Stephen J. Turnbull writes: done, i get [...] checking for X11 graphics libraries... checking for the Athena widgets... checking for Xaw3dComputeBottomShadowRGB in -lXaw3d... no checking for Xaw3dComputeBottomShadowRGB in -lXaw... no configure: WARNING: Could not find a 3d Athena widget library that looked like Xaw3d. checking for X11/Xaw3d/XawInit.h... yes checking X11/Xaw3d/ThreeD.h usability... yes checking X11/Xaw3d/ThreeD.h presence... yes checking for X11/Xaw3d/ThreeD.h... yes checking for Xm/Xm.h... (cached) no Error: Could not find a suitable Athena library to build with. % otoh, i have % strings /usr/lib/libXaw3d.so | grep XawSme3dComputeBottomShadowRGB XawSme3dComputeBottomShadowRGB % strings /usr/lib/libXaw3d.so | grep Xaw3dComputeBottomShadowRGB Xaw3dComputeBottomShadowRGB % nm /usr/lib/libXaw3d.a | grep XawSme3dComputeBottomShadowRGB 000004e0 T XawSme3dComputeBottomShadowRGB % m /usr/lib/libXaw3d.a | grep Xaw3dComputeBottomShadowRGB 00001070 T Xaw3dComputeBottomShadowRGB % looks like the libraries are up to date and there is a different problem. so i looked in config.log from config.log: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- configure:16183: checking for Xaw3dComputeBottomShadowRGB in -lXaw3d configure:16208: gcc -o conftest -Wall -Wno-switch -Wundef -Wsign-compare -Wno-char-subscripts -Wpacked -Wshadow -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -g -O3 -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/include/freetype2 -lXft conftest.c -ltiff -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lgif -lcompface -lXpm -lXft -lfontconfig -lXrender -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lXaw3d -lm 1>&5 conftest.c:121:1: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype [-Wstrict-prototypes] conftest.c:123:1: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype [-Wstrict-prototypes] /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltiff ---------------------------------------------------------------------- in effects, my libtiff is (i-dont-know-why) in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.4.3.4 i did a brutish % sudo cp /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.4.3.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so % configure ... and now all is well... but perhaps configure needs a little adjustment i feel like i haven't done all of my homeworks before annoying the mailing list, sorry thank you for the patch, after patching it was clear that the problem was not in the aw3d libs as i assumed (and configure told me ;) g -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta