On 09/26/2011 01:49 PM, Doug Kuvaas wrote: > I am trying to build an older version of X Server on Fedora 15 to > allow me to run a legacy application. Fedora 8, which functions > correctly for our application, will not install on a new computer for > some reason, presumably because the new hardware uses UEFI, and Fedora > 15 does not correctly run the application. > > When I try to build X11R6.8 from source, I get the following error > "ld: cannot find -lfl". Doing some digging, I found that this error > is because the linker cannot find the flex library, however flex is > installed. I am running a minimal install of Fedora 15 i686 with the > dev libraries and tools installed, nothing else. > > Kernel Version is 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.PAE > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to clear this error? All the > answers I found just said to install flex. Make sure you install flex-static. You're looking for /usr/lib/libfl.a which is provided by flex-static, not flex. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - The light at the end of the tunnel is really an oncoming train. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
