Re: [Bug 421037] New: Fontconfig does not compile w/o libexpat

["Justin Conover" <justin conover gmail com>]

On 5/11/07, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <joseph_sacco comcast net> wrote:

Justin,

"Something" [a libtool file (.pc|.la)] is pulling in the distro version
of libexpat rather than the GARNOME version of libexpat.

What to do...

(1) make sure that the GARNOME version of libexpat has been built and
installed.

(2) rebuild fontconfig


-Joseph

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On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:23 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
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> On 3/21/07, GARNOME (bugzilla.gnome.org)
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>           GARNOME | general | Ver: 2.18.x
>
>                    Summary: Fontconfig does not compile w/o libexpat
>                    Product: GARNOME
>                    Version: 2.18.x
>                   Platform: Other
>                 OS/Version: All
>                     Status: UNCONFIRMED
>                   Severity: normal
>                   Priority: Normal
>                  Component: general
>                 AssignedTo: garnome-maint gnome bugs
>                 ReportedBy: baris teamforce name tr
>                  QAContact: garnome-list gnome org
>              GNOME version: Unspecified
>            GNOME milestone: Unspecified
>
>
>         Please describe the problem:
>         While trying to compile GNOME 2.18 garnome can't compile
>         fontconfig.
>
>         Error message from make is below:
>         /usr/lib/libexpat.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong
>         format
>
>         It seems like fontconfig does not have bootstrap/expat in its
>         dependencies.
>
>         Steps to reproduce:
>         1. make paranoid-install
>         2. Watch garnome quit.
>         3.
>
>
>         Actual results:
>         Garnome quits on compiling freedesktop/fontconfig.
>
>         Expected results:
>         It should compile bootstrap/expat in advance, then compile
>         fontconfig.
>
>         Does this happen every time?
>         Yes
>
>         Other information:
>         When I compiled bootstrap/expat and installed it fontconfig
>         compiled well.
>
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> This Bug says :
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> Not a bug... Already discussed/resolved with submitter.
> -Joseph
> Can you share the wealth ;)
>
> I'm getting this with Centos 5 x86_64.
>
>  fcxml.o .libs/ftglue.o  -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/data/garnome/lib -Wl,--rpath
> -Wl,/data/garnome/lib
> -L/data/garnome/lib /data/garnome/lib/libfreetype.so
> -lz /usr/lib/libexpat.so  -Wl,--export-dynamic -Wl,--rpath
> -Wl,/data/garnome/lib -Wl,-soname -Wl, libfontconfig.so.1
> -o .libs/libfontconfig.so.1.2.0
> /usr/lib/libexpat.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
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joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net

Thank you.