In that case there might be something strange about your flavor of *nix
looking at the man page of my locally installed ld.
*-larchive
--library=archive
Add archive file archive to the list of files to link. This option
may be used any number of times. ld will search its path-list for
occurrences of "libarchive.a" for every archive specified.
On systems which support shared libraries, ld may also search for
libraries with extensions other than ".a". Specifically, on ELF
and SunOS systems, ld will search a directory for a library with an
extension of ".so" before searching for one with an extension of
".a". By convention, a ".so" extension indicates a shared library.
The linker will search an archive only once, at the location where
it is specified on the command line. If the archive defines a sym-
bol which was undefined in some object which appeared before the
archive on the command line, the linker will include the appropri-
ate file(s) from the archive. However, an undefined symbol in an
object appearing later on the command line will not cause the
linker to search the archive again.
See the -( option for a way to force the linker to search archives
multiple times.
You may list the same archive multiple times on the command line.
This type of archive searching is standard for Unix linkers. How-
ever, if you are using ld on AIX, note that it is different from
the behaviour of the AIX linker.*
So it seems to be unable to find the freetype library file(s), I would start
by searching for them my self, just to make sure they exist on your machine.
Then checking the permisions (I end up every so often wondering how I could
have been so stupid not to check them after an hour of messing about trying
to figure out why something isn't working) Once found I would simply try
adding the directory to my path.
Should all of that fail... I currently am out of ideas and if the error
doesn't change I would most likely turn to this same list asking the same
questions as you are.
Regards,
Rob
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:45 AM, sivasakthi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 09:31 +0200, Rob Coops wrote:
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> I would say this is the problem:
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> */usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfreetype*
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> At least that is what the compiler says the problem is and I guess it
> knows better then I do. So time to install the freetype libs. (
> http://www.freetype.org/)
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> Hi Rob,
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> Thanks for the reply..
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> Already i have installed freetype-2.1.9-1 rpm. but it produced the error
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