Re: compile error in slack 8.1

[Sean Proctor <sproctor ccs neu edu>]

yup, slack sucks with that.  more accurately, XFree86 sucks like that and
slackware does by association (as the only over freetype package on my
computer is from X)

Sean

On 19 Jul 2002, Barthel aus Pennswald wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 13:57, Sean Proctor wrote:
> > I sent this before... check the archives.  you need to delete the
> > dependency on freetype from the pango Makefile.  It's really
> > straight-forward (do a grep for freetype if you need more hints).  btw,
> > you should probably start with a clean installation of garnome afterwards.
> >
> > good luck,
> > Sean
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Emmanuel A. Garcia wrote:
> >
> > > Ok I get this message:
> > > /opt/gnome2/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to
> > > `FT_Get_Next_Char'
> > > /opt/gnome2/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to
> > > `FT_Get_First_Char'
> > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > make[11]: *** [gtk-query-immodules-2.0] Error 1
> > > make[11]: Leaving directory
> > > `/home/eman/garnome-0.12.2/gnome/gtk+/work/gtk+-2.0.5/gtk'
> > >
> > > I just installed Slackware 8.1 I haven't changed anything, is there some
> > > old library I have to remove or what?? Thank you in advance.
>
> Your other option would be to upgrade Slackware to freetype 2.0.9. (One
> of the changes in 2.0.9 is the addition of FT_Get_Next/First_Char.
>
> This is what's happening: configure is finding garnome's freetype and
> setting all of the correct library & include paths. But when the
> Makefiles are created, Freetype is last in line. For a lot of distros
> this is no big deal. But with Slackware you may not have all of the
> latest releases--unless they're security patches. So when garnome tries
> to make Pango, it's finding an older freetype library and fails because
> it's linking to the wrong freetype.
>
> Unfortunately, that's about the only major drawback to Slackware--if you
> want to work with bleeding edge, you'll probably find a lot more
> dependency issues.
>
> Barthel
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