Re: [Freetype] XFree86 4.2.x compilation + FreeType2 on RH

[David Turner]

Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure this is the best place to ask such question, if it is not,
> please tell me so.
>
> I am trying to compile XFree 4.2.x on my (heavily modified) RH 7.1. I am
> using gcc 3.2.1 and FreeType 2.1.2. Compilation seems to go well for
> quite some time (about 15min on my XP 2000+) when it aborts with:
>
> gcc -c -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686      -I/usr/X11R6/include  
> -I/usr/X11R6/include  -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L 
> -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE     -DFUNCPROTO=15 
> -DNARROWPROTO -DXTHREADS  -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API          -fPIC 
> xftlist.c
> xftlist.c: In function `XftListFonts':
> xftlist.c:155: parse error before "FT_Face"
> make: *** [xftlist.o] Error 1
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm/rpm-tmp.37916 (%install)
>
>
> RPM build errors:
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm/rpm-tmp.37916 (%install)
>
> Could it be FreeType-related (misconfiguration, maybe)? I have tried
> both XFree86-4.2.0-72.src.rpm and XFree86-4.2.1-8.src.rpm .

Your compilation line doesn't seem to include the results of
"freetype-config --cflags", which is necessary to compile anything
that includes the FreeType headers.

IMHO, it seems to be an XFree86 build/Makefile configuration error

Sorry, can't help you there...

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)