building Ghostscript 5.5

[Jonathan L Dubois <dubois bec physics udel edu>]

I am having trouble building Ghostscript 5.5
has anyone had success with this on alpha?

I get the following error:
/bin/sh <./obj/ldt.tr
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lXt: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [obj/gs] Error 1

the instalation docs say the following:

 With gcc version 2.6.3 or later, you may encounter an incompatibility in
 object formats (a.out vs. ELF) with the XFree86 library. Typically, ld
 complains that some X library is not found, or that many Xlib or Xt
 functions are not found in the library (similar to the messages for
 omitting SM and ICE from XLIBS). Or you get a message when you start
 Ghostscript that the program or the shared library is an unrecognized
 format.

 If this happens, edit unix-gcc.mak to add the switches "-b i486-linuxaout" 
 to both CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, then "make clean" followed by "make"). If
 this doesn't help, or if other strange things happen, contact your Linux
 supplier or support resource. 


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anyway -b i486-linuxaout didnt seem like the best idea...