Compiling help needed

[Ian Zimmerman]

Merv> So I went looking and libXext has been installed and I find
Merv> libXext.so.6.4 and links to " .so.6 " .so Also there is libXext.a
Merv> Do I give up?  No, not while we have the Debian master here.
Merv> Thank you

Jamon> Try installing libxext-dev or whatever matches the plain libext
Jamon> package that you appear to have installed.

No, he already has the development package (whether there's one
specifically for libXext or it's included in x-dev).  That's where
libXext.a would go.  So this is subtler.

I'd start with the Info node Autoconf | Existing Tests | System Services.
The --x-libraries=dir bit looks somewhat promising.

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