Hi, Kęstutis and others, On Apr 24 2010, George Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 04:59, Kęstutis Bilūnas wrote: > > How to do explicitly link against libfreetype6 (or maybe > > libfontconfig1) library? I've been unable to do so correctly. > > Well, you are trying to build mensis in a way which isn't really > supported. It expects to dlopen freetype rather than link with it, and > that's all the Makefile/configure script was written to handle.
Just to keep this in the archives (which is what George tried to tell), this is the intended behavior, and (actually) a design decision that he used with his programs. The dlopen thing is a way to load shared libraries during runtime, if they are available, intead of creating a hard-dependency on those libraries. It can be seen as a "plugin-like" system, if you so prefer. All that this means is that we actually may have symbols in the binaries that never get to be bound to the libraries, if such libraries are not present at runtime. With operating systems distributed like Debian, Redhat etc, the maintainers usually set the dependencies of the binary packages at build time and, in essence, this problem would not be present in a regular installation of the tools. OTOH, it also means that we can, in some cases, just demote the Depends: to a Recommends: and things "should work". http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/faq.html#dynamic-libs You can also see my comments here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578634 Regards, Rogério Brito. P.S.: George, did you happen to get my other e-mail? I may be having some e-mail problems... :-( -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
