From: ts Date: 2001-05-24T00:08:57+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:15590] Re: -lX11 error installing Ruby >>>>> "C" == Collins Richey writes: C> I installed Ruby successfully once (./configure - make - make install), but C> I found out that it didn't have tktcl support, so I modified the Setup file C> and did You can run configure with some options. For example for tcltk you can give (see ext/tcltk/extconf.rb) --with-X11-include, --with-X11-lib, --with-X11-dir --with-tk-include, --with-tk-lib, --with-tk-dir --with-tcl-include, --with-tcl-lib, --with-tcl-dir In your case : ./configure --with-X11-dir=/usr/X11R6 Guy Decoux