[desktop-discuss] libXft 2.1.9 (and compilation) issues

[Akhilesh Mritunjai]

Hi everybody

I was trying to build DrScheme when I ran into an issue with libXft shipped with Nevada build 43 (bfu'ed from 39).

In libXft 2.1.9 the libXft developers goofed up and marked function "XftNameUnparse" as private. Thus the linking process fails while building an application that uses this function.

This issue has subsequently been fixed in libXft 2.1.10. I tried to build it on Nevada, but failed because of conflict between GNU gcc and SUN ld. The GNU gcc expects GNU ld. However the GNU linker is present as "gld", apparantly gcc wasn't compiled with that information. So gcc tries to use the SUN ld (which doesn't like the GNU command line options).

Can anybody shed some light about-
1. When and if the new version of libXft would be integrated into Nevada ?
2. How to make GNU gcc work right (either GNU gld, or SUN ld) ?

Thanks and Regards
- Akhilesh
 
 
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