Re: SUN and XBoard query

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From: Shailesh L. Mistry
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 12:16

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In article 27288@bradford.ac.uk, M.D.Crowther@bradford.ac.uk (M.D.Crowther) writes:
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>Many people seem to have been able to get xboard to run on the SUN
>system. We have a Sun Sparcstation here. Can someone give a me total
>idiot proof method of getting xboard to run. Xics runs well by changing
>the Makefile in two places from local to openwin. 
>
cc -o xboard parser.o xboard.o backend.o -O  -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lm  
>ld: -lXext: No such file or directory
>*** Error code 4
>make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `xboard'


The problem is that it can't find the Xext library files.
Find the directory ie /usr/openwin/lib and include it in the makefile
where -lXext is mentioned ie DIR = -lXext replace with
DIR = -L/usr/openwin/lib -lXext 

Have fun,

Shelly.

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