Re: OroboRox compile problem - Was: [rox-users] which window manager

[squidge <bu...@er...>]

Ken Hayber <ke...@ha...> wrote:

> squidge wrote:
> > Ken Hayber <ke...@ha...> wrote:
> >>>>>
> > > > > > > During the 0.9.x series, he added some checks for the XFT
> > > > > > > library (for fonts), but instead of failing gracefully or
> > > > > > > switching flags, these errors occurred during compilation.
> > > > > > > However, somebody (Key Hayber?) provided a patch that
> > > > > > > corrected the issue, and the latest versions have it
> > > > > > > applied. Try and grab a later version of OroboROX than
> > > > > > > 0.9.5 -- I think 0.9.6 had the patch applied.
> >>>>>
> > > > > > Thanks very much for this information.
> >>>>>
> > > > > > Do you know where i can get 0.9.6 from? It doesn't appear to
> > > > > > be on the official update site.
> >>>>
> > > > > I really need to check my facts before posting. 0.9.5 *is* the
> > > > > latest, and has the patches applied, supposedly -- I've got it
> > > > > running on the very machine I'm writing from. It was one of
> > > > > the early 0.9.x series that had the breakages -- I think
> > > > > around 0.9.2 or 0.9.3.
> >>>
> >>>
> > > > Hmm, well it's 0.9.5 that I got those messages from :((
> >>>
> >>
> > > The patches I made  for 0.9.5 involved including the correct lib
> > > settings when testing for Xft.  This sounds different.
> >>
> > > Try 'pkg-config --cflags --libs xft' and show us the output you
> > > get.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for your help. The result I get is:
> > 
> > -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2  -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> > -lXft -lfreetype -lXrender -lfontconfig
> > 
> 
> Mine is: -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2
> -I/usr/include/freetype2/config  -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXft -lX11
> -lfreetype -lXrender -lfontconfig
> 
> The only difference is the /usr/include/freetype2/config item and the
> -lX11.  I guess both could be significant...

Well, as I said earlier, I don't know anything like enough about this
sort of thing, so don't know what I could, or should change (or how to
do it).

> Your older email said that you get an error complaining about:
> /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h:52: parse error before
> "_XftFTlibrary" The missing item is FT_Library which comes from
> freetype.h.  This in turn should be pulled in with ft2build.h.  So it
> seems strange to have a problem here.
> 
> I guess send me your config.h next.  I'm still on 0.9.3 so I suppose
> there is still a chance of a problem with 0.9.5; I'll download and try
> it here.

I take it you mean from OroboROX-0.9.5/=build

Perhaps I should send this directly to you rather than cluttering up the
list here.
 
> P.S.  I'm on Gentoo.  Your distro is?

I'm currently using Mandrake 9.1 but have ordered 10.1. Part of me is
hoping with that installed the problem may just go away but, if it does,
that is a bit of a cheat and I would learn nothing from it.

-- 
Squidge