That was the problem: I had libixp.a in /usr/lib/ Thank you very much.
Davide 2009/11/13 Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:04:22AM +0100, Davide Anchisi wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I already posted a similar problem, but as it is still there and don't >> know how to solve it, here it is. >> >> When I run 'make' to compile wmii (hg2590), I get the following error: >> >> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/local/lib/libixp.a', >> needed by `wmii.out'. Stop. >> >> I thought I'm missing something on my newly installed debian GNU/Linux >> 64bit system, but I couldn't figure out what it is (and I have no >> problemin compiling other packages). >> >> More strangely, if I run ' make deb' first, which fails as reported in >> a previous mail, and then ' make clean', wmii compiles! >> Then it installs ('make install') under debian/wmmi-hg (as in >> config.local.mk, which is not removed by 'make clean'), and finally, >> if I move those files by hand in the right location wmii is working >> properly. >> So it seems I have all the tools to compile. > > You need to install libixp, either to the same PREFIX as wmii or you need to > change the LIBIXP variable to point to it. > > Unfortunately, I can't test on debian except to send my sources to the > Launchpad build farm, and they always make clean first. I really can't see > why there should be a problem. > > -- > Kris Maglione > > APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language > of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a > new generation of coding bums. > --Edsger W. Dijkstra > > >