[ns] installation script doesn't consider /usr/include/X11 for X11 headers

[Ahmad Khayyat]

Try installing xorg-dev.
It will pull down a lot of X development dependencies.

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:49:32 -0000 (UTC)
"Timo Reimann" <t.reimann at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've been trying to install ns-allinone-2.30 on my system (Linux
> Ubuntu 6.10 with 2.6.17-11-38, Xorg 7.1.1) where the X11 headers
> (especially Xlib.h from the libx11-dev package) get installed
> in /usr/include/X11. Unfortunately, the installation script doesn't
> seem to consider this directory which results in a "can't find X
> includes" compile error message.
> 
> I tried passing "-I<dir>", "--x-includes=<dir>" and
> "--includes=<dir>" to `install' but this doesn't work. Instead, I had
> to modify the install script and add the --x-includes parameter
> manually.
> 
> It's hard for me to believe that no-one else using Debian or a
> Debian-based distribution (which should all be affected) has reported
> this before so I refrained from filing a bug report yet.
> 
> So can anyone please tell me if I did something terribly wrong or if
> this is really an error in the install script?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --Timo
> 
>