Configure problem: correction follow-up

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Tue Oct 18 01:39:55 UTC 2005


On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:54:51 +1000
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:07:39 +0930
> squareyes <squareyes at internode.on.net> wrote:
> 
> > checking for _NSGetEnviron... no
> > checking for vsnprintf... yes
> > checking for snprintf... yes
> > checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check 
> > your installation and add the correct paths!
> > squareyes at here:~/Desktop/scribus/freedomyug_en$
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This probably means you need xlibs-dev...  But I would save the time and trouble of tracking all and every build requirement by doing
> 
> sudo apt-get build-dep scribus
> 
> This requires that you have the "src" lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list enabled for main and universe at least - 

*Correction*

Ooops! Actually you don't need those lines - you just need the deb lines - it doesn't grab source files, just binaries of needed -dev libraries etc  If you were using the source deb you would need deb-src lines....

>what it does is grab all the build dependencies for you automatically. You should see less >complaints from your ./configure script after doing this ;-)
> 
> Peter
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