Re: [ft-devel] building xpdf on Solaris x86

[Debra Scott]

Yes, I'm running 'make install' as the superuser

-Debbie

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > I've downloaded the xpdf source package from sourceforge.net along
> > with the freetype package
> >
> > in building the freetype project first, I've done:
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > the latter fails with error:
> > make: *** [/tmp/freetype-2.3.5/objs/libfreetype.la] Error 1
> >    
>
> Hmm.  I doubt that this is related to what you describe below.
>
>  
>
> > I've looked in freetype-2.3.5/src/tool/ftrandom and when I try to
> > use the Makefile down there, I get the following error:
> >
> > make: *** No rule to make target `../../../objs/libfreetype.a',
> > needed by `../../../objs/ftrandom'.  Stop.
> >    
>
> ftrandom doesn't get built automatically at all..
>
>  
>
> > is there a typo? should libfreetype.a be libfreetype.la?
> >    
>
> This isn't a typo.  ftrandom indeed expects `libfreetype.a' (this is,
> it fails if you don't build a static library) -- I'm too lazy to
> generalize it.  It's not a program you should normally need since its
> purpose is very special.
>
> Are you sure that you are running `make install' as the superuser?
>
>
>    Werner
>