libX11.so.6

[Sanjay Govindjee]

Mauro,
on many x86_64-linux machines you need to link with /usr/X11R6/lib64.  
It depends on the version/distro you are using.

-sanjay

Barry Smith wrote:
>
>   Please send configure.log and make_log and bmake/$PETSC_ARCH/petscconf
>
> On Jan 1, 2008, at 9:21 PM, Pivi, Mauro Torino Francesco wrote:
>
>> I have just installed PETSC on a x86_64-linux machine.
>>
>> I am at the level of running the first exercises and after "make" and 
>> running the ex2.c file in parallel I get the message
>>
>> "./ex2: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot 
>> open shared object file: No such file or directory"
>>
>> WHAT SHOULD I DO??
>> I spent few days with this. Please, help.
>>
>> PS: I used the link found the file libX11.so.6 in the directory 
>> /usr/X11R6/lib. Thus I run configure.py again with the option
>> --with-x-include=/usr/X11R6/lib
>> But NO IMPROOVEMENT.
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Mauro
>>
>

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