Re: libxft requirement

[Rik]

On 11/26/2013 10:00 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 07:53:02 -0800 (PST)
> From: CdeMills <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [cygwin] silent compile failure
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> Hello,
>
> I compiled octave (from hg) on a machine with a pristine cygwin machine,
> where development libs were not installed before. I added the -devel
> packages which were detected as missing during the configure stage, and
> iterated up to the point where the configure script did not complain at all.
>
> Yet the compilation failed silently. While looking at the output log, I
> found
>
> /bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CXX   --mode=link g++  -Wall -W -Wshadow
> -Wold-style-c
> ast -Wformat -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -g -O2 
> -a
> void-version -module -no-undefined      -o dldfcn/__fltk_uigetfile__.la
> -rpath /
> home/PascalDupuis/usr/lib/octave/3.7.7+
> dldfcn/dldfcn___fltk_uigetfile___la-__fl
> tk_uigetfile__.lo liboctinterp.la ../liboctave/liboctave.la
> -Wl,--enable-auto-im
> port -Wl,--enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc -lfltk_gl -lGLU -lGL -lfltk -lXext
> -lXft 
> -lfontconfig -lpthread -lfontconfig -lX11 -lfreetype -lz -lbz2    -lm  
>
> *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lXft.
> *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when
> *** you link to this library.  But I can only do this if you have a
> *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have
> *** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting
> *** with libXft and none of the candidates passed a file format test
> *** using a file magic. Last file checked:
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/4.8.2/.
> ./../../../lib/libXext.dll.a
>
> *** Warning: libtool could not satisfy all declared inter-library
> *** dependencies of module __fltk_uigetfile__.  Therefore, libtool will
> create
> *** a static module, that should work as long as the dlopening
> *** application is linked with the -dlopen flag.
> libtool: link: ar cru dldfcn/.libs/__fltk_uigetfile__.a
> dldfcn/.libs/dldfcn___fl
> tk_uigetfile___la-__fltk_uigetfile__.o
> libtool: link: ranlib dldfcn/.libs/__fltk_uigetfile__.a
> libtool: link: ( cd "dldfcn/.libs" && rm -f "__fltk_uigetfile__.la" && ln -s
> "..
> /__fltk_uigetfile__.la" "__fltk_uigetfile__.la" )
>
> Adding the libXft-devel file solved this issue; yet I had to find all files
> linked with Xft, removing the object files and restarting the compilation.
> The installation stage was successfull up to the point where ./run-octave is
> launched. The freshly installed program runs.
11/26/13

Pascal,

I added a changeset that checks for Xft when X11 is present
(http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/7c0f59b688fc).  This should be
fixed.

--Rik