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

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 17 February 2004 12:16, Brian Capouch wrote:
> 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).

Which specific lines are you removing?  Please do a 'diff -u Makefile'
and post the results.  X libraries should not be required for building
Asterisk.

-Tilghman