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The problem was that we hadn't installed the XFree86 includes / libraries
when we did the Linux install.  Ooops.  A stupid mistake, as usual.
Thanks to Tim Edwards for suggesting that we look in the make.log file.

Tim also mentioned that the "extra tokens" warning is a gcc artifact
which can be ignored.

>We're trying to compile Magic 7.1.5 under Red Hat Linux 7.3.  We do the
>"gmake config" and everything seems to set up OK.  Next, when we run
>"gmake" we get voluminous warnings about "extra tokens at end of #endif",
>which I guess are OK, but then when gmake gets to the graphics
>module it quits with the message:
>   make [2]: *** [grX11su1.o] Error 1
>
>Any suggestions about what we're doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.
>We're using gcc version 2.96 (came with the Linux dist.)
>
>Thanks,
>
>John Nestor
>
>John Nestor, Associate Professor
>Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>Lafayette College
>Easton, PA 18042
>(610) 330-5411	nestorj AT lafayette DOT edu


John Nestor, Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lafayette College
Easton, PA 18042
(610) 330-5411	nestorj AT lafayette DOT edu

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