[openbox] Xft and RedHat 8

[Ben Jansens]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:03:05PM -0800, Pat Martin wrote:
> 
> Ok so it is not compiled in. I looked in the config.log like you
> suggested and found 
> 
> 
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> 
> configure:5523: checking whether to build support for the Xft extension
> configure:5535: result: version 2
> configure:5543: checking for XftFontOpenXlfd in -lXft
> configure:5576: g++ -o conftest  -I/usr/include/Xft2
> -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I
> /usr/X11R6/include   -g -O2  -I/usr/X11R6/include -Wall -W
> -L/usr/X11R6/lib 
>  -lSM -lICE conftest.cc -lXft    -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11  -lXext
>  -L/usr/X11R6/li
>  b -lXft2 -lfreetype -lXrender -lfontconfig   >&5
>  /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXft
> 
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> 
>  Yet like I said I have other programs that use it succesfully. And when
>  I do a locate I get:
> 
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> 
> ./etc/X11/XftConfig.README-OBSOLETE
>  ./usr/lib/libXft.so.2
>  ./usr/lib/libXft.so.2.0
>  ./usr/lib/libXft2.so
>  ./usr/share/man/man3/Xft.3x.gz
>  ./usr/share/gtk-doc/html/pango/pango-Xft-Fonts-and-Rendering.html
>  ./usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1
>  ./usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1.2
>  ./usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft
>  ./usr/X11R6/man/man3/Xft.3x.gz
>  ./usr/include/Xft2
>  ./usr/include/Xft2/X11/Xft
>  ./usr/include/Xft2/X11/Xft/XftCompat.h
>  ./usr/include/Xft2/X11/Xft/Xft.h

Its looking for a libXft.so, but yours is called libXft2.so. FreeBSD was teh
only other platform to do this until recently, they fixed theirs. I guess
RedHat sits alone, didn't realise they did too.

mv'ing or ln'ing that to libXft.so should fix that problem. I think the
headers should work from what I see.

Ben
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