LibX11 and libXrender dependency loop?

Beso givemesugarr at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 01:24:32 PST 2009


2009/11/11 Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com>

> Jon Grosshart wrote:
> > Here is LibX11:
> >
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/Xorg7.5/source/lib/
> > libX11-1.3.2/specs'
> > Making all in libX11
> > make[2]: Entering directory
> > `/tmp/Xorg7.5/source/lib/libX11-1.3.2/specs/libX11'
> >   GEN    libX11.txt
> >   GEN    libX11.ps
> >   GEN    libX11.html
> >   GEN    libX11.pdf
> > gs: error while loading shared libraries: libXrender.so.1: cannot open
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Your problem is an incorrectly installed gs (presumably being called via
> ps2pdf) - you shouldn't have installed it without it's dependencies.
> If ps2pdf wasn't installed, the pdf build would be skipped.
>
> > How is one supposed to go building the libs section of X11R7.5? I'm
> > using all versions that can be found in the 7.5 release directory. This
> > one has me kinda stumped.
>
> But you somehow installed a ps2pdf that depended on libXrender either
> without libXrender first or deleted libXrender afterwards.   Don't do
> that.
>
>
apart the ps2pdf  issue, i think that installing renderproto should fix the
libXrender installation. After the renderproto and libXrender are installed
then libX11 should install too, according that ps2pdf is correctly installed
too.

-- 
dott. ing. beso
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