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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Need libX11.a - Where???
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From: steve@combs (Stephen F. Combs)
Date: 21 Oct 1993 12:37:48 GMT
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Matt Helgren (helgren@dvorak.amd.com) wrote:
: 	I recentley installed XFree86 on my FreeBSD systems and now Im trying
: to compile some X apps but it real difficult (impossible) without the 
: libraries and the X includes.  Where do I get these?  I know I could grab
: the whole X11r5 dist and attempt to compile that on my system but there must
: be someone whos already done that and has all this available somewhere.  Any
: information would be greatly appreciated.

: Matt Helgren
: matt.helgren@amd.com

You must not have done a full install of XFree86 as the libraries are included
in one of the tarfiles (don't remember which one, but it's clearly identified
in the installation documentation).  I've built 4-5 xapps with no problems
so far.

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