On 2021/11/07 12:14, Kurt Miller wrote: > Yes adding -L/usr/X11R6/lib allows them to link, but the question is > why is it necessary when the libs ld claims it can’t find are explicitly > listed in the list of libs with full paths to find them?
I'm not sure of the reason, but there are a number of other -L/usr/X11R6/lib across the tree, some of which are because of this problem on ld.bfd archs (and others are "normal" because we don't have /usr/X11R6/lib in the standard search path).