libXext eludes linker, mod X issue?

sean seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 00:56:19 UTC 2005


xorg-x11-6.8.2-58 on amd64.

All of a sudden, builds ( xine, dvdauthor) break with:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext

but

ldconfig -v | grep Xext
         libXext.so.6 -> libXext.so.6.4
         libXext.so.6 -> libXext.so.6.4

locate libXext
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.4
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so
/usr/X11R6/lib64/libXext.a
/usr/X11R6/lib64/libXext.so
/usr/X11R6/lib64/libXext.so.6
/usr/X11R6/lib64/libXext.so.6.4

Adding LDFLAGS seems to fix this, but why is the linker 
suddenly unable to find -lXext on its own? Does it know 
xorg-x11-devel is going?

sean




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