Alexander Volovics <awol@home.nl> writes:
> As a non programmer who has only a very vague idea of what is going on
> here and what might be needed I find this very frustrating.
>
> Can somebody from RH give some explantion of how this can be solved.
> (Or some experienced programmer willing to take the time to instruct me).
>
This isn't intended to be solved by a non-programmer. As far as I know
the app you are trying to compile has to be ported to Xft2, and there
is no Xft1 compile environment in 8.0, Xft1 is deprecated and gone.
When porting, apps should use xft-config or pkg-config to compile
against Xft2, in order to handle different possible locations for the
library.
Xft1 was basically experimental, as its man page said:
"Xft will probably change radically in the future; weak
attempts will be made to retain some level of source-file
compatibility."
"man Xft" _still_ says this, though I'm not sure it applies to Xft2.
Havoc
