WAHOOO!!!!!! Ted, thank you. I ran pkg-config --cflags xorg-server and it responded that dri2proto was not installed... So I installed that and all is happy. It was driving me batty because I had not done anything different, but something wasn't working!!! I must have remove dri2proto at some point and did not realize it. Thank you thank you! On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Ted Gould wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 13:07 -0700, Nathan England wrote: > > So my question is why isn't gcc finding the necessary .h files unless > > I tell it to include the directories within the /usr/include > > directory? > > Because that's not how it works :-) It doesn't search for the file, it > just checks for it. So if you had: > > #include > > That would work. The configure script is probably broken in this case > not to look for the appropriate pkgconfig file. That usually controls > the -I flags for a build. For instance you can do: > > $ pkg-config --cflags xorg-server > > And see where things are on your system. On my Ubuntu 11.04 system that > returns: > > -fvisibility=hidden -I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/pixman-1 > > --Ted > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nathan England I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am innocent and have nothing to hide, but NO agent of the state crosses my threshhold without a valid warrant signed by a judge and properly submitted. If we fail to exercise our rights, we lose them.