libfontconfig.la missing (source tarball)

[Francois Kritzinger]

On Tuesday 28 December 2004 17:38, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Francois Kritzinger wrote:
> 
> > I recently compiled and installed 6.8.1 from source. Everything
> > seems to be working fine so far, except that when I tried to
> > compile another program today, the compilation exited with an
> > error because /usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.la could not be found.
> >
> > I checked the file list of one of my distro's (Slackware) x11
> > packages and it includes libfontconfig.la. However, doing a find
> > on the post-compilation source tree indicates that this file was
> > not produced during compilation. All of the fontconfig libraries
> > seem to be in their right locations, though. I looked around in
> > the documentation and also host.def and also searched the web but
> > could not find any answers.
> 
> Your vendor may have added the .la file as a convenience with using
> libtool with other software using it.
> 
> Or it is from the libtool-based fontconfig from freedesktop.org (which is
> what the Pkgsrc package for fontconfig uses).
>   http://freedesktop.org/~fontconfig/release/
>   http://freedesktop.org/Software/fontconfig/
> 
> The fontconfig included with X.org doesn't use libtool.
> 
>  Jeremy C. Reed
> 
>         open source, Unix, *BSD, Linux training
>        http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 

OK, thanks :)