Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      21 Jan 2003 17:54:28 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: who broke mozilla?
Message-ID:  <1043189668.61589.42.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <200301212252.h0LMq28W027817@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <200301212252.h0LMq28W027817@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 17:52, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke said:
> > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 17:38, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> > > Joe Marcus Clarke said:
> > > > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 17:26, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > pkg_info only shows Xft is installed.  I however have
> > > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/fontconfig-config
> > > > > /usr/X11R6/include/fontconfig
> > > > > /usr/X11R6/include/fontconfig/fontconfig.h
> > > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig/fontconfig.pc
> > > > 
> > > > Ah, there's the problem.  Install x11-fonts/fontconfig, and you should
> > > > be okay.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Yep. It appears to work now.  I noticed that x11-fonts/fontconfig
> > > installs fontconfig.pc into X11R6/libdata while I have it in
> > > X11R6/lib.  
> > 
> > Right, if you install packages like fontconfig yourself (i.e. outside of
> > the ports collection), you will get problems like this.  We use libdata,
> > and the default install wants to use lib.  However, our pkg-config
> > doesn't search lib.  When pkg-config doesn't find a .pc file, it tries
> > to detect the package using the old gnome-config script.  When that
> > doesn't exist, you get the error you saw.
> > 
> 
> This is going to screw anyone who has to install XFree86
> from XFree86.org's cvs repository.  The XFree86-4 port 
> does not work with the ATI Radeon 7500 mobility chip.  The
> problem is fixed in the upcoming version of XFree86.

This configuration is not yet supported.  I'm working with the XFree86
maintainer so that when 4.3 comes out, things will work correctly.

> 
> Is it possible to have pkgconfig look in libdata and then
> fallback to lib?

I'd rather not do this as it could allow us to miss something.  When 4.3
is officially released, the port version of fontconfig will be preferred
over the one included with X.

Joe

-- 
PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc




To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1043189668.61589.42.camel>