Re: medm build

[Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@i-tech.si>]

We seen this problems too with newer Ubuntu and Mint Linux distros 
(other might apply too).
I think that the root problem is in the fact that "multiarch" is 
supported out-of-the box on the newer versions of Linux distros. In 
other words, static and dynamic libraries for certain packages (mostly 
X11) end up in the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu folder (or similar) instead 
of in the /usr/lib folder (where EPICS looks for them).
We solved the problem by making a soft link like this

ln -snf /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXt.a /usr/lib/libXt.a

Note the full path!

I would like to see more friendly solution in the future for this issue.

Thank you!

--
Hinko

On 01/10/2013 04:18 AM, Kate Feng wrote:
> One need to install the libxt-dev package, too for the development header.
> Also, depending on your build config,  one might need to  provide the link
> from the medm source tree directory/lib
>
> ln -f -s /usr/lib/.../libxt.a libXt.a
>
> Cheers,
> Kate
>
> On 01/09/2013 09:58 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
> > You need to install the libXt package on Linux.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov [tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] on
> > behalf of D Peter Siddons [siddons@bnl.gov]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 8:38 PM
> > To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
> > Subject: medm build
> >
> > I just tried to build medm 3_1_7 using epics base-3.14.12.2 on Ubuntu
> > 12.04. It gives an error:
> >
> >    *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib64/libXt.a', needed by `medm'.
> >
> > I suspect a configuration error. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Pete.
> >
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> > D. Peter Siddons
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> >
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