Error while installing X11R6.8.2

[Nupur]

Thank you for your replies.
I have one more query, if you can help.
What does expat do?
and on what basis should i decide whether to install expat or disable
it in hosts.def?

Regards,
Nupur

On 10/4/05, Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb at laas.fr> wrote:
> Nupur wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am working on Redhat distribution-7.0, in which i've upgraded
> > binutils, gcc, glibc, module-init tools. The kernel i am using is
> > 2.6.12.
> >
> > As my system was using 2.2 kernel and i wanted to upgrade it to 2.6, i
> > had to upgrade the above mentioned packages. Now, I want to upgrade
> > the GUI interface as well, which is not working in 2.6.12.
> >
> > I started with XFree86 and got few errors. Then from mailing list
> > suggestions, I have downloaded the source files from x.org and now
> > after running command :
> >                            make world > world.log > 2>&1
> >
> > I am getting the following errors in world.log:
> >
> > xmlconfig.c:34:19: expat.h: No such file or directory
> > xmlconfig.c:139: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `XML_Char'
>
> >
> > Can you please help?
>
> You need to install the expat-devel package, or set HasExpat to NO in
> your host.def file before starting the build.
>
> --
>                                        Matthieu
>