# To subscribers of the xforms list from Steve Lamont <spl@eggshell.ucsd.edu> :
> I had a problem when trying to install this to a non-standard
> directory. It seemed to use this directory as the one to search for
> the lib files (Xext, etc) The command that crashed was the link
> step.. gcc -o ..lots of object files.. -L/non-standard_dir -lXext
> -l....
>
> so of course the whole thing failed as the Xlibs are not there but
> in /usr/X11R6/lib
>
> Is there an easy way to solve this or was I doing something stupid?
The easiest thing you can do is to do two passes. First build with
the non-standard directory option turned off, then turn it on and do
xmkmf -a
then
make install
`imake' makes me yell sometimes. It's very flexible if you do what it
wants to do. :-)
spl
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