Fwd: missing X11 when configuring mplayer

[kockkin ko]

The problem was Incompatible libXext in amd64 FC3 with mplayer.  It is
not missing X11. the subject is misleading. After some investigation,
I confirmed that.
Let me thank Alexander again for his reply. 

I found out the issue from the following investigation:
Do a YUM update with my FC3 installation, I got more than 300 packages
+ all xorg-x11 amd64 rpm packages. I also noticed the packages
including non 64bit version - i386.
YUM did an installation at the end with a completion station.
After the installation, I started to re-do .cofigure. I got the same
error: "Incompatible Xext lib".  The Xext was newly compiled at Nov
20th,
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      14 Nov 20 23:02 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so
-> libXext.so.6.4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      14 Nov 20 23:00
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 -> libXext.so.6.4

I went to my P4 stations, where I got a copy of FC3, did the
installation of mplayer. the configure has not issue and the
installation went well.

Well now I could only watch my famous movie "mansfield park" at my P4
4xAGP station, but not at my amd64 8xAGP station.... :(

regards,

kockkin ko
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:55:53 +0100
Subject: Re: missing X11 when configuring mplayer
To: kockkin ko <kockkinko at gmail.com>


Am Sa, den 20.11.2004 schrieb kockkin ko um 7:46:



> I found the xorg-x11-devel package in my FC3 installation. (Please see
> below at the bottom of this email for the detail of rpm -qi
> xorg-x11-devel. )
> Looking at the issue more closely, I found the error statement
> emphasing incompatable libXext.so in configure.log for configureing
> mplayer.  Looking in /usr/X11R6/lib, the libXext.so was there. (Please
> see below at the bottom of this email for the details of these files)
>
> Here comes my questions:
> My first question is why not compatible?
> I could not find any package titled xorg-x11-Xext... in the update
> archive: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/x86_64/

The .so files, only needed at compile time, are (nearly) always in the
-devel package. Did you install both the i386 and the x88_64 (32bit and
64bit) RPMs?

> My next question where to find this package that generate libXext?

Answered: the devel RPMs hold these files.

> Looking at both the reply of rpm -qi on the xorg-x11 and
> xorg-x11-devel, I found the installated rpm packages was not of amd64
> versions. At least the version number in the reply of rpm -qi did not
> show amd64. (please see below the rpm -qi reply)

That may be the problem.

> My third question is that I am having an amd64 box, does it mean I
> need to reload all relevant xorg amd64 packages? should they be
> xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.x86_64.rpm? and
> xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.x86_64.rpm?

These x86_64 package should have been installed during installation of
64bit FC3.

> My fourth question is that why did FC3 installation disks of amd64 not
> install the correct version of X11 in my amd64 box?

Can't say, I don't run a 64bit system. Btw. there is an own mailing list
for this platform.

> kockkin ko

Alexander

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