libfontconfig.la missing (source tarball)
Keith Packard
keithp at keithp.com
Tue Dec 28 12:03:58 PST 2004
Around 16 o'clock on Dec 28, Francois Kritzinger wrote:
> the compilation exited with an error because /usr/X11R6/lib/
> libfontconfig.la could not be found.
That X.org's tarballs include upstream sources like fontconfig is a serious
problem for most users. You can configure the X.org build system to not
built things which your system provides already, in this case the
config/cf/host.def file should contain
#define HasFreetype2 YES
#define HasFontconfig YES
#define HasExpat YES
#define HasLibpng YES
#define BuildXterm NO
This avoids building these pieces for which X.org is not the original
source project.
As an aside, the fact that libtool (used in the fontconfig package)
produces .la files even on systems which don't really need them is a bug in
my opinion. The problem here is that imake (used in the X.org package)
never uses libtool, and so doesn't create the (unnecessary) .la file.
-keith
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