Re: Alpha compilation error

[David Turner]

Hi Matt,

> 
> Hi
> 
> Whilst trying to compile the current FreeType 2 on an Alpha (OSF/1 v4.0) I
> have hit two problems, one of which I found the solution, the other I have
> not.
> 
> First I had a problem with the constants INT64 and LONG64 in ftcalc.h.
> Changing occurences to FT_INT64 and FT_LONG64 respectively throughout
> ftcalc.h did the trick, since that is what is defined in ftconfig.h. You may
> or may not already be aware of this, but thought I'd mention it just in
> case.
> 

Thanks a lot, actually we simply forgot to change the header file, while
the updates had been made to "ftcalc.c". It's now commited..

> Secondly, I then got the following compilation error, for which I would
> welcome suggestions as to how I might resolve it.  (I simply typed "make"
> and then "make" again).
> 
> ./builds/unix/libtool --mode=link cc -O0 -o obj/libfreetype.la
> obj/ftsystem.lo obj/ftdebug.lo obj/ftinit.lo obj/ftbase.lo obj/ftglyph.lo
> obj/ftmm.lo obj/autohint.lo obj/cff.lo obj/type1cid.lo obj/psnames.lo
> obj/raster1.lo obj/sfnt.lo obj/smooth.lo obj/truetype.lo obj/type1.lo
> obj/type1z.lo obj/winfnt.lo \
>                           -rpath /usr/local/lib -version-info 6:0:0
> rm -fr obj/.libs/libfreetype.la obj/.libs/libfreetype.*
> obj/.libs/libfreetype.*
> /bin/ld -shared -expect_unresolved \*  obj/ftsystem.o obj/ftdebug.o
> obj/ftinit.o obj/ftbase.o obj/ftglyph.o obj/ftmm.o obj/autohint.o obj/cff.o
> obj/type1cid.o obj/psnames.o obj/raster1.o obj/sfnt.o obj/smooth.o
> obj/truetype.o obj/type1.o obj/type1z.o obj/winfnt.o   -lc  -msym -soname
> libfreetype.so `test -n "6.0.0:6.0" && echo -set_version
> 6.0.0:6.0` -update_registry .libs/so_locations -o
> obj/.libs/libfreetype.so.6.0.0
> /bin/ld:
> Cannot open file .libs/so_locations to write
> make: *** [obj/libfreetype.la] Error 1
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Many thanks,
>                 Matt Beare.
> 
Well, it seems to be a libtool problem, and I can't help there.
Maybe Werner, who made the Unix build files could answer ??

Have you tried to compile with "--disable-shared" ??

Regards,

- David

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