Re: [Cooker] problem recompiling XFree86 --> -lfont not found

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:

> Chmouel,
> 
> 
> > > gcc -o bdftopcf -O2 -Wa,-m21164a -ansi -pedantic     -L../../exports/lib
> > > bdftopcf.o -lm -L/usr/lib -L../../lib/font  -lfont -lz
> > > -L../../lib/font/stubs -lfntstubs      -Wl,-rpath-link,../../exports/lib
> > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lfont: No such file or directory
> 
> > install freetype-devel (ver 1.3), go to /usr/include and do :
> > ln -s freetype/* ./
>  
> > thath tricky because i am a lazzy to do a patch with a
> > -I/usr/include/freetype
> 
> Are you sure it has todo with freetype??
> freetype = libttf
> 
> != libfont.

Well if it's only looking in usr/include it'll be a problem (wonder why
it's ignored?) when building. 

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