RE: [Devel] About Instarll Freetype on redhat linux 9

[Turner David]

Hello,

Hi, all

 

This moring I acted as the INSTALL.UNX to upgrade freetype on Redhat linux 9.01:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install 

 

This is correct 

 
cp /usr/lib/libfreetype.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (because I found that startx will load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a, which don't be upgraded by make install) 

 

This is not correct, and isn't even described in INSTALL.UNX. You shouldn't have done that !!

 

Any XFree86 module found under the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules directory hierarchy must be compiled

in a very special way. These modules are supposed to be platform-independent and cannot use the

target system's standard C library, among other things...

 

In other words, you trashed your XFree86 installation. Try to replace this file by its previous version.

If this is not possible, remove it. Note that the XFree86 libfreetype.a is only used to support TrueType fonts for legacy X11 applications (i.e. not anti-aliased).

 

Simply updating the /usr/lib library should update all anti-aliased rendering though, since this

isn't supported through standard X11 services.

 

Hope this helps,

 

- David Turner

- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)

 

 

 
After doing above all, I used "startx", but it failed , I checked the log, which shows the following message:
Duplicate symbol BitOrderInvert in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a:truetype.o
Also defined in (built-in)
Why?

Thanks a lot!

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