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

[Brian Capouch]

Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> 
> 
> 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).
> 

This leads to a question that has been bugging us for a while.

Is X required to build asterisk?  When we tried to do so on machines 
that didn't have any X libraries installed, we would get errors at link 
time building pbx.c

If we removed the lines that called for those libraries, asterisk would 
build, but then other weirdnesses would ensue and we finally just 
started installing the X libraries even though we will never run X on 
those boxes (low-end servers talking to one or two channels).

Could anyone comment on "the right way to do it?"  It's got to be either 
me or the code :-)

Thx.

b.