Error while installing X11R6.8.2

Matthieu Herrb matthieu.herrb at laas.fr
Mon Oct 3 23:26:37 PDT 2005


Nupur wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am working on Redhat distribution-7.0, in which i've upgraded
> binutils, gcc, glibc, module-init tools. The kernel i am using is
> 2.6.12.
> 
> As my system was using 2.2 kernel and i wanted to upgrade it to 2.6, i
> had to upgrade the above mentioned packages. Now, I want to upgrade
> the GUI interface as well, which is not working in 2.6.12.
> 
> I started with XFree86 and got few errors. Then from mailing list
> suggestions, I have downloaded the source files from x.org and now
> after running command :
>                            make world > world.log > 2>&1
> 
> I am getting the following errors in world.log:
> 
> xmlconfig.c:34:19: expat.h: No such file or directory
> xmlconfig.c:139: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `XML_Char'

> 
> Can you please help?

You need to install the expat-devel package, or set HasExpat to NO in 
your host.def file before starting the build.

-- 
					Matthieu



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