On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Terry Barnaby <terry1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/26/2011 09:49 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. > > You may have to install the package flex-static to get a static version of > the flex library. > > However, I don't think you will have much luck in building all of > X11R6.8 and getting it to work under F15, at least not the XServer. > The graphics driver, DRM and kernel API interfaces have significantly > changed > over the years. Also it is likely that the graphics board you are using > isn't even supported ... > Thanks, this did fix the error that I was getting. I don't have a whole lot of faith in this as a possible solution, but it seems like it may be about the only thing I can do. Since the application I am looking to run is 2D graphics only, just using the VESA driver is good enough. -- 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
