[Xorg] Problem building fontconfig on AIX.

mcnichol at austin.ibm.com mcnichol at austin.ibm.com
Fri Aug 13 15:04:18 PDT 2004


I was afraid of that.

Actually I have an RPM of Fontconfig 2.2.2 available.  I had put off using
it bacause it used Freetype2 2.1.7.  But I believe that should be ok to use
now since I think the Freetype2 problem was fixed.

Thanks
Dan

> From keithp at keithp.com Fri Aug 13 16:35:39 2004
> 
> 
> Around 15 o'clock on Aug 13, mcnichol at austin.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> > making all in lib/fontconfig...
> > Target "all" is up to date.
> 
> Fontconfig is imported into the X.org tree and has to be manuall converted 
> from autotools to imake each time.  I suspect this conversion is broken on 
> AIX.  Would you give the original fontconfig package a spin and use
> #define HasFontconfig YES in your host.def?
> 
> It may be that we can simply require fontconfig to be pre-installed on AIX 
> systems (not ideal, but it would be nice to know what our options are).
> 
> -keith
> 
> 
> 



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