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Asked: 2026-06-12T05:59:53+00:00

I’m trying to build Ghostscript (v 9.06) on my hosted linux box so I

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I’m trying to build Ghostscript (v 9.06) on my hosted linux box so I can manipulate PDF files.
Everything was going fine with ./configure and make, but then I got the following error:

../gs/base/x_.h:135:29: error: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory

After which I got a list of errors with funny â characters, looking like this:

../gs/base/gdevx.c:1138: error: âgx_device_Xâ has no member named âtextâ

What’s the problem here, and what’s the fix? I thought it was a symlink problem, so I checked where my X11 directory was and ran the following command:

 ln -s X11 /usr/include/X11

I ran make again but no difference. Any ideas?

Edit

Here are the first few lines of the errors… the rest are all pretty much the same:

../gs/base/x_.h:135:29: error: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory
../gs/base/x_.h:136:30: error: X11/StringDefs.h: No such file or directory
../gs/base/x_.h:137:25: error: X11/Shell.h: No such file or directory
In file included from ../gs/base/gdevx.c:33:
../gs/base/gdevx.h:30: error: expected â=â, â,â, â;â, âasmâ or â__attribute__â before âgdev_x_resourcesâ
../gs/base/gdevx.h:32: error: expected â=â, â,â, â;â, âasmâ or â__attribute__â before âgdev_x_fallback_resourcesâ
../gs/base/gdevx.h:119: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before âPixelâ
../gs/base/gdevx.c:217: warning: excess elements in struct initializer
../gs/base/gdevx.c:217: warning: (near initialization for âgs_x11_deviceâ)
../gs/base/gdevx.c:217: warning: excess elements in struct initializer
../gs/base/gdevx.c:217: warning: (near initialization for âgs_x11_deviceâ)
../gs/base/gdevx.c:217: error: extra brace group at end of initializer
../gs/base/gdevx.c:217: error: (near initialization for âgs_x11_deviceâ)

And the last few lines are:

make[2]: *** [obj/gdevx.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/ghostpdl-9.06/main'
make[1]: *** [pdl-product] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/ghostpdl-9.06/main'
make: *** [pcl] Error 2
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  1. Editorial Team

    It turned out I just didn’t have the X package installed properly.

    I ran 

    yum provides \*/Intrinsic.h
yum provides \*/StringDefs.h
yum provides \*/Shell.h

    to find out where to get these files, and got 

    libXt-devel-1.0.7-1.el6.x86_64 : X.Org X11

    for each of them. So I installed it:

    yum install libXt-devel

    then went back to my ghostscript directory, ran make, ./configure and make again, and voila. It worked out.

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