On Nov 20, 2008, at 11:29, Peter Dyballa wrote:

Am 20.11.2008 um 19:37 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:

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You need to install xfixesproto first. I should add that to the dependencies in configure.ac ...

The reason is ridiculous: I had no --prefix=... argument for configure! So some hard-code /usr/local path was used instead of what CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS suggested.

Yes, autoconf always uses /usr/local by default if you don't specify a --prefix CPPFLAGS contain command line arguments to pass to the C-Pre-Processor (has nothing to do with prefix) CFLAGS contain command line arguments to pass to the C-compiler (again, nothing to do with prefix) Take a look at './configure --help'

When I first tried to compile X11R7.1 on Tiger Apple's libtool stuff could not be used. The build process did not come to the stage of compilation. I think it's older than X11R7 ...

I'm not sure what you mean... glibtool in Tiger should work. Show me the output you mean. Plus, you shouldn't be trying to use X11R7.1 ... that will certainly not work on Tiger.

Since Leopard is not offering an X11 with transparency I can easily wait till Christmas 2009 to buy (then reasonably priced) and install it. Until then I'll have some time to test Apple software whether it's able to compile X11.

I'm not sure what you mean by this...