X devel libs problem?

[Mike A. Harris]

Louis Garcia II wrote:
> Compiling gst-ffmpeg-0.10.1 on FC6 I ran into this:
> 
> gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
> -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386
> -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -Wall -Wno-switch -o ffplay
> ffplay-cmdutils.o ffplay-ffplay.o  -L/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread
> libavutil/.libs/libavutil.a libavformat/.libs/libavformat.a -ldl
> libavcodec/.libs/libavcodec.a -lz -lm
> ffplay-ffplay.o: In function `main':
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gst-ffmpeg-0.10.1/gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg/ffplay.c:2451: undefined reference to `XOpenDisplay'
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gst-ffmpeg-0.10.1/gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg/ffplay.c:2455: undefined reference to `XCloseDisplay'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[7]: *** [ffplay] Error 1
> 
> I do have libX11-devel installed but somehow it's not picking it up.
> Might this package be screwed up? Don't know if this is an X bug or this
> particular package.

"-lX11" is notably missing from the above gcc invocation, so
libX11 is not getting linked in.




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