Bug 14855 – things which link against xft can't build, linker dies when it can't locate XRenderSubPixelQuery

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Amy Alford 2003-01-31 10:33:59 UTC]

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I can't build either kde or gnome.  Both appear to have a problem with xft. 
gtk+ says it can't compile against pango.  The first kde package I try to emerge
has an error I can't remeber on configure, but I waded through the configure
script and found that the problem is when it tries to link something against xft.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge gtk+
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
says it can't locate pango

Expected Results:  
built gtk+

I'm running:
xfree-4.2.1-r2
pango-1.2.0
xft-2.0.1
gtk+-2.0.8
qt-3.1.0-r1

I'm trying to install kde3.1 and gtk+-2.2.0

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-02-02 13:49:56 UTC]

Hi, please include a log of say trying to merge gtk+-2.2.0, as well as its
config.log.  You can get config.log by merging gtk+-2.2.0 with:

  # FEATURES=noclean emerge gtk+

and then looking in /var/tmp/portage/xft+-2.2.0/work/xft+-2.2.0/

[Comment 2 Amy Alford 2003-02-05 13:30:35 UTC]

Created attachment 7952 [details]
the config.log from trying to build gtk+-2.2.0

[Comment 3 Amy Alford 2003-02-05 13:31:36 UTC]

Created attachment 7953 [details]
log of trying to emerge gtk+2.2.0

[Comment 4 Amy Alford 2003-02-05 23:14:25 UTC]

I managed to find the conftest.cc that artsd's configure script blows up on, and have played around with compiling it myself.  If I add a -lXrender -L/usr/X11R6/lib to g++'s command line it compiles fine.  

I tried installing bluefish (gtk+ based) and it began compiling but blew up saying it couldn't find XRenderQuerySubPixelOrder.  

So I'm suspicious that gnome and kde's library configuration stuff is just not realizing that it needs to link against -lXrender.  xft-config --libs mentions -lXrender though.  pkg-config --libs pango and pkg-config --libs pangoxft don't mention it though.

[Comment 5 Amy Alford 2003-02-06 09:45:15 UTC]

If I do export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXrender" and then emerge -u gtk+ it works.  Not a good solution since it links /everything/ against Xrender, but it makes me pretty sure the problem is things not adding that to their LDFLAGS.

[Comment 6 Robert Jan Schutten 2003-02-11 05:02:32 UTC]

I had similar problems (libXft complaining about XRenderQuerySubPixelOrder)

Installing the latest mozilla version (1.2.1-r5) solves this problem.
Apparantly older mozilla revisions installed their own libXft, and the system got confused which of the libXft versions it should use...
The specific mozilla Xft version is now renamed, so it does not cause problems anymore for other programs...

[Comment 7 david 2003-05-24 21:26:04 UTC]

ion-devel also fails when trying to locate FcPatternDestroy

[Comment 8 Andrew Cooks (RETIRED) 2003-11-24 06:33:38 UTC]

Please reply if this isn't fixed

[Comment 9 Andrew Cooks (RETIRED) 2003-11-24 06:52:40 UTC]

adding bug@wranglers to cc and marking for testing