checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installa

[Kevein]

Hi every body,
I am new user, using FC10, and I am trying to ./configure a software from source and I got a message, but problem that I don't know how to solve it.

message:
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

I would be very greatefull for how is helping me to solve it.

Thanks,

[glennzo]

What package are you trying to ./configure?

[Kevein]

Thanking you for your reply
This problem usually I get it while I try to ./configure softwares.
Kooka I am trying to ./configure

[glennzo]

Kevenin, I'm going to move this thread to Software since it has nothing to do with installing Fedora.
Can you post the last several lines of the configure output please, exactly as it appears in the terminal?

[Kevein]

checking for strlcpy... no
checking if strlcpy needs custom prototype... yes - in libkdefakes
checking for main in -lutil... yes
checking for main in -lcompat... no
checking for crypt in -lcrypt... yes
checking for socklen_t... socklen_t
checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet... no
checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet_stub... no
checking for inet_ntoa... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/bitypes.h usability... yes
checking sys/bitypes.h presence... yes
checking for sys/bitypes.h... yes
checking for poll in -lpoll... no
checking CoreAudio/CoreAudio.h usability... no
checking CoreAudio/CoreAudio.h presence... no
checking for CoreAudio/CoreAudio.h... no
checking if res_init needs -lresolv... yes
checking if res_init is available... yes
checking for killpg in -lucb... no
checking for int... yes
checking size of int... 4
checking for short... yes
checking size of short... 2
checking for long... yes
checking size of long... 8
checking for char *... yes
checking size of char *... 8
checking for dlopen in -ldl... (cached) yes
checking for shl_unload in -ldld... no
checking for size_t... yes
checking size of size_t... 8
checking for unsigned long... yes
checking size of unsigned long... 8
checking sizeof size_t == sizeof unsigned long... yes
checking crt_externs.h usability... no
checking crt_externs.h presence... no
checking for crt_externs.h... no
checking for _NSGetEnviron... no
checking for vsnprintf... yes
checking for snprintf... yes
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

[PabloTwo]

Try: yum install libX11-devel

[Kevein]

I am thanking every body to try to help me, But I got this message that's package already installed.

Package libX11-devel-1.1.5-2.fc10.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

[PabloTwo]

Then my next suggestion would be: yum groupinstall "X Software Development"

[Kevein]

Hello Pablo
I have installed what you suggested but I got another message:
checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.2) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!

[PabloTwo]

In almost all cases when ./configure halts with an error that some headers and/or libraries are missing, you need to install the *-devel rpm package for whatever it is. In this case, it's a matter of:

yum install qt-devel

The previous halt on the missing X headers wasn't as obvious as to what package to install, as 'yum install X-devel' would not have worked. Sometimes you have to figure out the actual name of the package to satisfy the missing dependency. In the case of the missing 'X' headers, I didn't know the answer myself, but I knew how to solve the puzzle.

sudo yum list *x* | grep devel

Near the top of the list returned, it was fairly easy to guess that libX11-devel was the most probable package. You'll no doubt hit other dependency issues before you have them all on hand. Learning to become somewhat proficient at using yum at the command line to find packages will go a long way in assisting you when compiling software and gathering up the required dependencies.

Edit: And when that didn't satisfy ./configure, then 'sudo yum grouplist' made "X Software Development" the next logical choice.

[Kevein]

Thanking you so much for help, but till now i can't ./configure it there's something wrong