Bug 459482

Summary:	x11-libs/libXft: freetype should be in Requires, not Requires.private
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	mgorny
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	459352

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-02-27 11:56:32 UTC

This is unfortunate but the problem is:

/usr/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h:39:22: fatal error: ft2build.h: No such file or directory


So Xft adds a dependency on freetype on all its users. Since it's using Requires.private, it does not get added by default to the list of packages, but then, it fails this way.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2013-02-27 22:26:16 UTC

I'm afraid I don't understand the issue.

As far as I'm aware, Requires.private is supposed to be followed when obtaining cflags.

$ pkg-config --cflags xft
-I/usr/lib64/freetype2/include/freetype2 -I/usr/lib64/freetype2/include  

$ qlist freetype | grep ft2build
/usr/lib32/freetype2/include/ft2build.h
/usr/lib64/freetype2/include/ft2build.h

Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-02-28 06:12:10 UTC

You're right. The packages need to discover xft through pkg-config as well for this to work though.