Bug 7255 – dfm-0.99.9 fails to emerge

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrew Sayman 2002-08-30 04:12:30 UTC]

dfm fails during the configure step with:
checking for strcasecmp... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for __argz_count... yes
checking for __argz_stringify... yes
checking for __argz_next... yes
checking for stpcpy... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking whether included gettext is requested... no
checking for libintl.h... no
checking whether catgets can be used... no
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for catalogs to be installed...  de da ru
checking for zlib.h... no
checking for X11/xpm.h... no
configure: error: Xpm library and/or headers are not installed (required)

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line -218, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)

!!! emerge aborting on  /usr/portage/app-misc/dfm/dfm-0.99.9.ebuild .

I'm on an x86 using default-2.0-x86 profile

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-08-30 15:18:39 UTC]

Check that you have the '/usr/include/X11' symlink that points to
'/usr/X11R6/include/X11'.

[Comment 2 Andrew Sayman 2002-09-03 22:44:33 UTC]

That symlink is there.

[Comment 3 Andrew Sayman 2002-09-08 16:05:21 UTC]

Created attachment 3757 [details]
xfree build log

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-12-08 15:39:10 UTC]

Still an issue?  Do you have /usr/X11R6/include/X11/xpm.h ?

[Comment 5 Andrew Sayman 2002-12-08 18:00:02 UTC]

Reinstalling with a fresh 1.4 fixed this. Sorry to waste your time.