[plug] Getgui

[David Dartnall]

Adrian Chadd wrote:
> And don't forget that by default the X11 development packages aren't
> installed..
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007, Russell wrote:
>   
>> On 11/5/07, David Dartnall <darts at dialix.com.au> wrote:
>> ...
>>     
>>> XLIBS = -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
>>> XINCLUDEDIR = /usr/X11R6/include
>>>
>>> Neither path exists in Ubuntu Gutsy, and I can't find 'lX11'.
>>> What is the significance of the '-L' at the start of the XLIBS path and
>>> the '-' preceding the 'lX11'? How should this line read in Gutsy?
>>>       
>> -Ldirname means "look for libraries in dirname, in addition to the
>> default set of directories".  -lfoo means "link with a library called
>> libfoo.a."  libfoo.a will be searched for in all the directories
>> specified with -L plus the default directories.
>>
>> So with the XLIBS above, the linker is being told to look for
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a, or /usr/lib/libX11.a, or /lib/libX11.a, and
>> possibly some others, using whichever it finds first.
>>
>> To get the correct directory name, try running "locate libX11.a" and
>> using the directory name of the file that command shows you, if any.
>>
>>
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Ahhh.. so that's what it means!

locate libX11 produced the following response,

darts at localhost:~$ locate libX11.*
/usr/lib/libX11.so.6
/usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0
/usr/lib/libX11.a
/usr/lib/libX11.so

and once I understood the significance if the 'L..' and '-l' the 
following modification to Makefile produced an error-free make and the 
binary getui which I'll now move to /usr/bin.

XINCLUDEDIR = /usr/include/X11/
XLIBS = -L/usr/lib/ -lX11

and Bob's y'r uncle.

Thank you all
Dave Dartnall