SL Baur wrote on 7-September-1998: ->Gunnar Evermann <Gunnar.Evermann(a)nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: -> ->> I'm not sure whether I should blame configure or our 'strange' ->> installation here. -> ->> I'm using Solaris 2.6 and want to link with Openwindows (which should ->> be the default IMHO) -> -> ->> $OPENWINHOME is /usr/openwin as usual, but a locally compiled X11R6.3 ->> is in /usr/X11. -> ->> The result of ./configure is: ->> checking for X... libraries /usr/openwin/lib, ->> headers /usr/X11/include -> ->> (for some reason we have no static X-lib in /usr/X11/lib otherwise ->> x_libraries would be /usr/X11/lib as well). -> -> ->> Is it intentional that /usr/X11 is preferred over /usr/openwin on ->> Solaris by default? -> ->Probably. Same as /usr/dt gets preferred whether it is needed or ->not. You can force /usr/openwin to the front of the path by adding it ->to --site-libraries and --site-includes. You can get rid of /usr/dt ->by editing it out of configure before running it. Er, Sir Steve, I think the point Gunnar is trying to make is that /usr/X11 doen't normally exist under Solaris 2.6 - only in his abnormal local setup where X11R6.3 has been compiled and installed. Under an "ordinary" 2.6 installation it (/usr/X11) don't exist so configure shouldn't be looking for it (unless explicitly asked to). gristle $ uname -a SunOS gristle 5.6 Generic_105181-06 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5 gristle $ ls -l /usr/X11 /usr/X11: No such file or directory I don't particularly understand autoconf, so bear with me: ________________________________________________________________________ dnl $OPENWINHOME implies --x-includes and --x-libraries dnl Not (yet) handled by autoconf2 if test "$x_includes $x_libraries" = "NONE NONE" \ -a -n "$OPENWINHOME" \ -a "$OPENWINHOME" != "/usr/openwin" \ -a -d "$OPENWINHOME"; then test -d "$OPENWINHOME/lib" && x_libraries="$OPENWINHOME/lib" test -d "$OPENWINHOME/include" && x_includes="$OPENWINHOME/include" test -d "$OPENWINHOME/share/include" && x_includes="$OPENWINHOME/share/include" fi ________________________________________________________________________ Is this line not superfluous: '-a "$OPENWINHOME" != "/usr/openwin" \'? Even if $OPENWINHOME==/usr/openwin then surely x_libraries and x_includes should still be set as above? Feel free to flame my naïvety... nic