configure: error: We need a working libXext to proceed

[latinjazz]

Hello!

I give up watching in newsgroups to solve my problem. I found many answers but nothing helps me about my configure-problem.

I downloaded digikam-0.7.3-beta1.tar.gz and tried to configure and then to install it. My system is SuSE Linux 9.2 (x86_64).

While the configure process the following error appears:

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./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apps/digikam
[...]
checking for libXext... no
configure: error: We need a working libXext to proceed. Since configure
can't find it itself, we stop here assuming that make wouldn't find
them either.
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This output appears while every configure process that uses X-components.
The library libXext.so links to a library called libXext.so.6.4 and is in the following directory: /usr/X11R6/lib

Corresponding to some answers I installed XFree86-devel, but it helps nothing.

Has anybody additional ideas to solve my problem? I'm really discouraged yet!

Thanks in advance,
Christian

[variant]

install all the development packages you can find with yast.. its total overkill but should solve the problem.

[wxqc11h]

Try,
emerge -D libXext