[MPlayer-dev-eng] configure X check issue

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:04:55PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Just compiled XFree86 3.3.5 for my notebook, and I noticed that I had to
> >   ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so
> >   ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so
> > to have my X detected by MPlayer ./configure
> > 
> > Is it all right this way?
> 
> no
> ldconfig should do that for you

Also those commands demonstrate a misunderstanding of symbolic
linking. The correct way would be:

ln -s libX11.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so
ln -s libXext.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so

But Arpi is right, ldconfig should do this. Perhaps the person who had
this problem is using a broken system without /usr/X11R6/lib in their
/etc/ld.so.conf...

Rich