Re: Does Xft2 in Red Hat 8.0 work with GNUstep-back?

[emailpaco]

Although I use Mandrake 9.1, I too was having similiar problems.  I
fixed mine by....

Before making gnustep-back, edit
/usr/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/target.mak.  Search for the first
definition of INTERNAL_CFLAGS and INTERNAL_OBJCFLAGS.  (Both are
probably set to -D_RENTRANT).  To those definitions add
-I/usr/include/freetype2 so they read, for example,

INTERNAL_CFLAGS = -D_RENTRANT -I/usr/include/freetype2

Save and exit the editor, do 
make clean; ./configure; make 
if it all works, do make install.


Richard Stonehouse <richard@rstonehouse.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:<mailman.5121.1051122465.21513.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>...
> I'm reporting the following just in case there's a genuine problem here
> - I don't speak C and don't really understand the build process, so it
> may well be a case of 'user error'.
> 
> When I originally built GNUstep stable under Red Hat 8.0, 'configure'
> for gnustep-back-0.8.0 didn't auto-detect Xft.
> 
> Not a big issue for me - presumably it's the reason why fonts in
> GWorkspace don't come out anti-aliased, which doesn't matter a lot - but
> thought I'd try to fix it.
> 
> In the gnustep-back source tree, did './configure' with option:
> 
>     --with-include-flags="-I/usr/include/Xft2 -I/usr/include/freetype2"
> 
> which successfully got through the configure and auto-detected Xft.
> 
> However the make failed:
> 
> In file included from XGContext.m:47:
> ../../Headers/xlib/XftFontInfo.h:38: `XftFontInfo' redeclared as
> different kind of symbol
> /usr/include/Xft2/X11/Xft/Xft.h:54: previous declaration of `XftFontInfo'
> XGContext.m: In function `+[XGContext initializeBackend]':
> XGContext.m:81: parse error before "XftFontInfo"
> 
> Is this because:
> 
>   - Red Hat have messed up their implementation of Xft2? or
>   
>   - the GNUstep I'm building isn't compatible with Xft2? or
>   
>   - I've done something wrong?