Re: fontconfig and /lib64 (FC6 64) +garnome-2.17.92

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Justin,

Try the following:

* cd freedesktop/fontconfig

* make uninstall clean

* edit the GAR Makefile

    LIBDEPS = bootstrap/freetype bootstrap/expat

* make install > make_install.log 2>&1 &



-Joseph

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On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 07:49 -0600, Justin Conover wrote:
> I'm not sure what the appropriate fix is, but fontconfig wouldn't
> install with the following error:
> 
> "/usr/lib/libexpat.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format"
> 
> Looking through, in the work dir there was EXPAT_LIBS = -lexpat 
> then doing ./configure --help I saw --with-expat-lib=DIR 
> 
> So I did a make clean and then edited the top level make file to
> include: --with-expat-lib=/usr/lib64
> 
> It built and installed, so far so good:
> 
> 
> 
> diff -r Makefile Makefile.old
> 21c21
> < CONFIGURE_ARGS = $(DIRPATHS) --with-confdir=$(sysconfdir)/fonts
> --with-add-fonts=$(sharedstatedir)/fonts/truetype,/usr/lib/X11/fonts
> --disable-docs --with-expat-lib=/usr/lib64 
> ---
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS = $(DIRPATHS) --with-confdir=$(sysconfdir)/fonts
> --with-add-fonts=$(sharedstatedir)/fonts/truetype,/usr/lib/X11/fonts
> --disable-docs
> 
>  diff -u Makefile Makefile.old
> --- Makefile    2007-03-01 07:44: 45.000000000 -0600
> +++ Makefile.old        2007-03-01 07:48:13.000000000 -0600
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
>  BUILD_SCRIPTS = $(WORKSRC)/Makefile
>  INSTALL_SCRIPTS = $(WORKSRC)/Makefile
> 
> -CONFIGURE_ARGS = $(DIRPATHS) --with-confdir=$(sysconfdir)/fonts
> --with-add-fonts=$(sharedstatedir)/fonts/truetype,/usr/lib/X11/fonts
> --disable-docs --with-expat-lib=/usr/lib64 
> +CONFIGURE_ARGS = $(DIRPATHS) --with-confdir=$(sysconfdir)/fonts
> --with-add-fonts=$(sharedstatedir)/fonts/truetype,/usr/lib/X11/fonts
> --disable-docs
> 
> 
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