Re: /root/.xinitrc: afterstep: command not found:
Scott Stone (sstone@ume.pht.co.jp)
Thu, 14 May 1998 10:11:56 +0900 (JST)
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Brett Taylor wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 May 1998, Keith wrote:
>
> > I did what you said but now when I type startx it comes back with the
> > following message:
> > /root/.xinitrc: /usr/AfterStep-1.4.5.55N/afterstep is a directory.
> >
> > It seems as though something is not all there.
>
> Yep.
>
> > When I setup AfterStep and ran the 'make' command I noticed a couple of
> > error messages scrolled by they are as follows:
>
> > X11/xpm.h: no such file or directory
> >
> > ld: cannot open -1xpm: no suchfile or directory
> ^^^^^^
>
> I hope this is -lxpm. (note the 'l' not '1')
>
> Did you run the configure script? Do you have a /usr/X11/lib/X11/xpm.h
> file (I think this is where things are - there may be slight differences
> as I'm running FreeBSD and things aren't in exactly the same places).
FreeBSD and Linux and most other UNIXes at least put their X headers in
the same place (it's an X standard, not a UNIX flavor standard, or so I
think.). Many Linux distributions, at least, don't install xpm stuff by
default, so that could explain it.
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<sstone@pht.co.jp>
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