On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 03:17:11AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Alexander Volovics wrote: > >When trying to compile an app (openbox) under RH-8.0 a number of > >complications are encountered. > No, it never was. libXft.so.2.0 _never_ existed in RHL 7.3 at > all ever. Xft2 is new to Red Hat Linux 8.0. Xft2 is in the Xft > package in RHL 8.0, because it is a separate library, which is > not part of XFree86 4.2.0. The Xft library included with Red Hat > Linux 7.3 is Xft 1.1, which is part of XFree86 4.2.0. -------------cut, see thread--------------- > >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. > Correct, end users shouldn't have to worry about these sort of > things. I recommend reporting a bug to the upstream project > maintainers of the package which is not using xft-config to > autodiscover the proper compiler and linker commandline > arguments et al. > >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). > Hopefully the above information is helpful. Indeed it was. Thank you Mike for the clear explanation. Alexander
