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configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! this is what i got when i tried to configure a program is there a simple solution to set the "path"?

hi what are you trying to do and what distro are you using ?

 

cheers

anyweb

you may need to update you pkgconfig paths, the X-devel packages...

 

the includes are usually in /usr/include/X11

 

so if that dire~ exists you have it installed already, you may need to update them though.. xorg-devel or xorg or somethign alng those lines..

 

for teh mean time.. you may try..

 

 

./configure --with-x-includes=/usr/include/X11

Quote:configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! this is what i got when i tried to configure a program is there a simple solution to set the "path"?

 

If its Fedora .. or a similar package based system, then you may not have the "devel"opment package installed.

 

For instance with Fedora: