[Fontconfig] compiling on Solaris

[Michael Prentice]

FYI... the fix is to download expat from http://expat.sourceforge.net 
and build/install that.

Worked fine for me, and built with no issues.  Then after a make clean, 
fontconfig and such built.

Mike


Michael Prentice wrote:

> I'm running into the same problem.  I tried just removing the -lexpat 
> from the build.  And that causes fontconfig.so to build.  But then 
> when I try to build fc-cache:
>
>
> gcc -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFONTCONFIG_PATH=\"/etc/fonts\" -I.. -I. 
> -I/net/acrolein/export/home/mprentic/include/freetype 
> -I/net/acrolein/export/home/mprentic/include 
> -I/net/acrolein/export/home/mprentic/include 
> -I/net/acrolein/export/home/mprentic/include/freetype2 -o fc-cache 
> fc-cache.o -L../src -lfontconfig
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> XML_SetCharacterDataHandler         ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_SetDoctypeDeclHandler           ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_GetBuffer                       ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_GetErrorCode                    ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_ErrorString                     ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_ParserCreate                    ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_ParserFree                      ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_GetCurrentLineNumber            ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_SetUserData                     ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_ParseBuffer                     ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_SetElementHandler               ../src/libfontconfig.so
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to fc-cache
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `fc-cache'
>
>
> So I assume that expat is all the XML stuff that I need...
>
>
> I guess there's been no resolution to this in the last month?
>
> Mike
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Brent Bice  fontconfig at fontconfig.org
> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:51:42 -0800 (PST)
>
>  I'm havin' trouble getting fontconfig to compile on solaris.  I've
> compiled expat (I *think* it's ok - ar -t shows all the .o files) but 
> when
> I try to compile fontconfig, I get:
>
> Text relocation remains                         referenced
>     against symbol                  offset      in file
> <unknown>                           0x19dc 
> /usr/local/lib/libexpat.a(xmlparse.o)
> (and a jillion or so other <unknown>'s.  - grin)
>
>    I assume that this means something is wrong with my expat lib?  There
> was no install for it, but it compiled with no errors.  And I just copied
> the resulting .a file to /usr/local/lib and a handful of the .h files to
> /usr/local include.  That oughta be ok, right?
>
>    Thanks in advance for any tips you can offer......
>
> Brent
>
>


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