libXfont: Changes to 'master'
Yaakov Selkowitz
yselkowitz at kemper.freedesktop.org
Sun Aug 8 22:45:33 PDT 2010
src/Makefile.am | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
New commits:
commit c482a2c104aa5cd1a265c2ca310a308dcc418fe7
Author: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed Apr 14 05:58:28 2010 -0500
Revert "Bug #6247: Fix build on Cygwin"
libtool requires the '-no-undefined' flag in order to create shared
libraries on PE/COFF platforms (Cygwin/MinGW); on other platforms this
flag has no effect.
The problem with libXfont is that PE weak symbols do not behave exactly
as they do on ELF platforms. Since PE binaries (both executables and
libraries) must have all symbols resolved at link time, there is no way
for the real symbols in xserver to "displace" those in libXfont at
runtime, so the result is that libXfont uses its stubs, which do
nothing, and xserver ends up unable to find its fonts.
Solving this will require either significant changes to libXfont or some
major improvement to the toolchain to handle this case. Until that
happens, removing '-no-undefined' will result in a static-only library
on these platforms, which is the only currently working solution.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11306
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00281.html
This reverts commit 69c4ae1e3e14a58bc2eb9b9b8820dc7183b82a67.
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