All versions of nxclient (which is available binary only and thus cannot be changed) always immediately die with ./nxclient: symbol lookup error: ./nxclient: undefined symbol: FT_Realloc After some research I found that the reason is that all freetype:2 ebuilds currently in the tree unconditionally disable FT_CONFIG_OPTION_OLD_INTERNALS and thus do not export the required symbol FT_Realloc. Of course, the best solution would be to have a version of nxclient which does not rely on obsolete internals, but since AFAIK nxclient is closed source, I guess that this is not an available option. So I suggest to provide a corresponding USE flag for freetype to enable FT_CONFIG_OPTION_OLD_INTERNALS and let the nxclient ebuilds do a corresponding built_with_use check.
Can you post emerge --info, nxclient version you tried, freetype version (if onx86), emul-linux-x86-xlibs version (if on amd64)?
Since apparently you could not reproduce the problem, I thought about it and found an answer: Try after export LD_BIND_NOW=1 (I have this in my system shells' profiles for security reasons), i.e. for me nxclient was dying immediately while without the above command it will die only when the function is actually used. Of course, after I know this, one might try to put "unset LD_BIND_NOW" in the wrapper script, but perhaps this will just eliminate one symptom, not the cause. To answer your other questions: I had the same effect on x86 and amd64 with several versions of nxclient and freetype. On amd64, I had tried the combinations nxclient-3.0.0-r3 freetype-2.3.4-r2 emul-linux-x86-libs-10.1 nxclient-3.0.0-r4 freetype-2.3.4-r2 emul-*-20071114 (and perhaps 20071128-r2) nxclient-3.0.0-r5 freetype-2.3.4-r2 emul-*-20071128-r2 nxlcient-3.1.0 freetype-2.3.4-r2 and freetype-2.3.5-r2 emul-*-20071128-r2 (although I do not understand your question about emul-linux-x86-libs, since "file" shows that the amd64 version of nxclient is 64bit and "ldd" shows that it will link with the 64bit freetype library). On x86, I tried probably the same combinations (at least, genlop shows that I had installed the same nxclient and freetype versions). env -i emerge --info: Portage 2.1.4_rc14 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-hardened-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-hardened-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP1700+ Timestamp of tree: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:46:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0_rc6-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 bt87x cmipci mpu401 sb8 sb16 sbawe seqdummy serialmidi serial-u16550 trident via82xx via82xx-modem virmidi ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="*" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CCACHE_SIZE="512M" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -fno-ident -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="." 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Yes sorry, forget about the emul libs, this was for older nxclient binaries (all removed from portage now) I can reproduce it with LD_BIND_NOW set, I'll look into that one
We have disabled FT_CONFIG_OPTION_OLD_INTERNALS in freetype starting with 2.3.1, which was *removed* 21 months ago from the tree. Probably best solution is to bug upstream: they should not use internal functions.
Never got an answer from upstream on this one (and just released 3.4.0 has the same behaviour, but someone already tried to convince them of this. However their answer was that they supplied their own libraries in the tarball, which did not disable FT_CONFIG_OPTION_OLD_INTERNALS and worked fine that way. As this is a binary-only package, we can't fix this by ourselves sorry (until upstream changes its mind). Alternative is to use qtnx (open-source client)
