[mythtv-users] MythTV compile problems

[Kevin Slater]

I had the same problem. You need to put some soft links in for those 
libraries in order for myth to find them at link time. (ln -s 
libXext.so.6 libXext.so for example.)

...Kevin

Baba O'Riley wrote:

> I am fairly new to linux, but MythTV has definitely inspired me to 
> learn more.  The documentation has been incredibly helpful.  However, 
> at the moment, I am having compile problems.
>
> I am running Mandrake 9.0
> The last few lines I recieve when running make are what follows:
>
> --------------------------
>
> g++ -shared -Wl,-soname,libmyth-0.7.so.0 -o libmyth-0.7.so.0.7.0 
> dialogbox.o guidegrid.o infodialog.o infostructs.o lcddevice.o 
> programinfo.o settings.o themedmenu.o mythcontext.o moc_dialogbox.o 
> moc_guidegrid.o moc_infodialog.o moc_lcddevice.o moc_themedmenu.o   
> -L/usr/lib/qt3/lib  -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lqt-mt -lpthread -lXext -lX11 -lm
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [libmyth-0.7.so.0.7.0] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/myhome/Documents/mythtv-0.7/libs/libmyth'
> make[1]: *** [sub-libmyth] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/myhome/Documents/mythtv-0.7/libs'
> make: *** [sub-libs] Error 2
>
> -------------------------------
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
>
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