Re: fontconfig error

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- Michael Ekstrand <michael elehack net> wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 20:40 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> > > This is your first error message:
> > >
> > > "
> > >      84
> > 
> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local
> > /include
> > > -I/usr/local/include -DFONTCONFIG_PATH=\"/usr/local/etc/fonts\" -I.. -I../
> > src -g -O2 -MT
> > > fcfreetype.l
> > >      84 o -MD -MP -MF .deps/fcfreetype.Tpo -c fcfreetype.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o
> > .libs/fcfreetype.o
> > >      85 fcfreetype.c:53:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
> > >
> > > ".
> > >
> > > And it is exactly the same error message which caused me to file
> > > already mentioned bug report:
> > >
> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7862
> > > .
> > >
> > > Did you read the bug report and did you compare my report with
> > > your error message ?
> > >
> > > I have no idea how to fix this.
> 
> It looks like a result of FreeType's housecleaning..  The latest
> versions of freetype removed the public install of old internal headers,
> which half the projects on the Internet (it seems) used.  They were
> never supposed to, but they did.  Result: many packages are broken.

Do your words in simple English mean that fontconfig folks release
packages which can't compile ?

That is, they release packages not even trying to compile them ?

> Installing an older freetype (2.1.x I believe) is an intermediate fix;
> otherwise, there are patches from freetype's website for some packages,
> and many packages have appropriate fixes already.

Could you please be more specific about the patches ? I.e., could you please
provide URLs to the patches ?

> 
> It's been a while since I looked into this, so I don't remember details,
> but that should give you a starting point.
> 
> - Michael
> 
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> 

Thanks,
  Sergei.


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