[Asterisk-Users] cannot find -lXext when building * ?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 16 February 2004 20:07, C. Johnson wrote:
> Howdy.. I am building * on a barebones server,
> running just the minimum config (no X, etc..)
> when I build, I get this error, and I'm trying to
> track it down. Has anyone ran into this before or
> have a general idea?
>
> gcc -shared -Xlinker -x -o pbx_gtkconsole.so
> pbx_gtkconsole.o `gtk-config --libs gthread`
> /usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find
> -lXext
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [pbx_gtkconsole.so] Error 1

You have GTK installed, but not X?  If you don't intend to
run X applications on the server, then deinstall GTK (as the
X libraries are required to run GTK apps).

-Tilghman