On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 12:13:35PM -0400, Brian Howard '00 wrote:
> I am running the latest version of AIX (4.3.3) and the default X11
> configuration that was installed on my machine with AIX. I am now trying
> to install fvwm, and running into problems. Although configuration would
> succeed, compilation would fail on a missing shape.h, which is an X11
> extension. Simply adding the file is useless, since you would be trading
> a compilation error for a linking error. I tried using the
> --disable-shape option, which worked for fvwm itself, allowing it to
> compile, but none of the extras would compile without it. I also later
> installed xpm, and now fvwm itself won't compile, I suspect because the
> xpm requires these extra libraries. After much google research, I found
> that shape.h is associated with libXext, and that the X11 setup included
> in AIX lacks several of teh extensions and libraries included in a normal
> X11 install. Attempts to find a patch or update to bring AIX up to speed,
> as well as attempts to find a full X11 AIX binary failed. Short of
> reinstalling X11 myself, does anyone have any ideas for what could be done
> to fix this problem?
I suggest you fetch a more recent copy of fvwm. The latest beta
(2.3.32) should properly detect the absence of the shape extension
and compile without it. Once you got it up and running you may
want to read question 2.2 of the fvwm FAQ about running fvwm under
CDE.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Fri Jun 22 2001 - 14:23:18 BST