On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:56:32PM -0500, Thomas Dodd wrote: > Alexander Volovics wrote: > >When trying to compile an app (openbox) under RH-8.0 a number of > >complications are encountered. > >1) the library libXft.so.2.0 is no longer to be found in > > /usr/X11R6/lib (as in RH-7.3) but in /usr/lib > > ............cut........................... > Use "xft-config --cflags" to get CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS > and "xft-config --libs" for the LDFLAGS > Find where xft.h is includes in the source files. Make sure it's > just "#include <Xft.h>" and after it add "#include <XftCompat.h>" With the help of somebody on the openbox mailing list I finally managed to get it compiled. Indeed by using "xft-config". First run ./configure then edit the necessary Makefiles by appending `cft-config --libs` and `xft-config --cflags` after every relevant LDFLAGS and CXXFLAGS statement. And then also editing config.h to assure Xft support. Then make and make install and it works. But this only compiles openbox itself and the key edit utility. I have not been able to compile bsetbg, bsetroot and xftlsfonts along with openbox. However they are not strictly needed if you don't set backgrounds. Alexander
