Couldn't install fontconfig verison 2.4.0 nor 2.3.97 due to following warnings/errors on a 64 bit Linux Cluster running Fedora Core 3: fc-cache/fc-cache -s -f -v Fontconfig warning: line 32: unknown element "cachedir" Fontconfig warning: line 33: unknown element "cachedir" Fontconfig error: "conf.d", line 1: no element found and /usr/share/fonts: /home/speerst/MY_OPT/GTK_BINDINGS/DEPENDENCIES/fontconfig-2.3. 97/fc-cache/.libs/lt-fc-cache: symbol lookup error: /home/speerst/MY_OPT/GTK_BIN DINGS/DEPENDENCIES/fontconfig-2.3.97/fc-cache/.libs/lt-fc-cache: undefined symbo l: FcDirCacheRead Here is the output from the "make install" stdio dump to screen: ---- Start of output excerpt ------ test -z "/etc/fonts" || mkdir -p -- "/etc/fonts" /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'fonts.dtd' '/etc/fonts/fonts.dtd' /home/speerst/MY_OPT/GTK_BINDINGS/DEPENDENCIES/fontconfig-2.3.97/install-sh -d / etc/fonts if [ -f /etc/fonts/fonts.conf ]; then \ echo "backing up existing /etc/fonts/fonts.conf"; \ mv /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/fonts/fonts.conf.bak; \ fi backing up existing /etc/fonts/fonts.conf if [ -f ./fonts.conf ]; then \ echo " /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./fonts.conf /etc/fonts/fonts.conf"; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./fonts.conf /etc/fonts/fonts.conf; \ else if [ -f fonts.conf ]; then \ echo " /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 fonts.conf /etc/fonts/fonts.conf"; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 fonts.conf /etc/fonts/fonts.conf; \ fi; fi /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./fonts.conf /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (if test -z ""; then \ echo " fc-cache/fc-cache -s -f -v"; \ fc-cache/fc-cache -s -f -v; \ else \ echo "***"; \ echo "*** Warning: fonts.cache not built"; \ echo "***"; \ echo "*** Generate this file manually on host system using fc-cache"; \ echo "***"; \ fi) fc-cache/fc-cache -s -f -v Fontconfig warning: line 32: unknown element "cachedir" Fontconfig warning: line 33: unknown element "cachedir" Fontconfig error: "conf.d", line 1: no element found /usr/share/fonts: /home/speerst/MY_OPT/GTK_BINDINGS/DEPENDENCIES/fontconfig-2.3. 97/fc-cache/.libs/lt-fc-cache: symbol lookup error: /home/speerst/MY_OPT/GTK_BIN DINGS/DEPENDENCIES/fontconfig-2.3.97/fc-cache/.libs/lt-fc-cache: undefined symbo l: FcDirCacheRead make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory `/.automount/home/home/speerst/MY_OPT/GTK_BINDINGS/DE PENDENCIES/fontconfig-2.3.97' make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/.automount/home/home/speerst/MY_OPT/GTK_BINDINGS/DE PENDENCIES/fontconfig-2.3.97' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 ---- End of output excerpt ------ Here is the fonts.conf file as well showing "cachedir" on lines 32 and 33 ---- first 33 lines of fonts.conf file dump ---- <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <!-- /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file to configure system font access --> <fontconfig> <!-- DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. IT WILL BE REPLACED WHEN FONTCONFIG IS UPDATED. LOCAL CHANGES BELONG IN 'local.conf'. The intent of this standard configuration file is to be adequate for most environments. If you have a reasonably normal environment and have found problems with this configuration, they are probably things that others will also want fixed. Please submit any problems to the fontconfig bugzilla system located at fontconfig.org Note that the normal 'make install' procedure for fontconfig is to replace any existing fonts.conf file with the new version. Place any local customizations in local.conf which this file references. Keith Packard --> <!-- Font directory list --> <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir> <dir>~/.fonts</dir> <!-- Font cache directory list --> <cachedir>/usr/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir> <cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir> ---- end of fonts.conf file dump ---- What can I do to fix the problem and get fontconfig to install? Thanks Steven
the fc-cache program is clearly not pointing at the correct fontconfig library for some reason. Instead, it is using the installed fontconfig library which doesn't contain the new symbols. There is probably something in your configuration which is breaking the way libtool executes programs before they are installed.
Thanks for the reply. I was able to get the problem resolved after some more searching and configuration struggles. After manually moving old fontconfig libraries out of the way and installing the new libraries and symbolic links in /usr/lib and usr/lib64, changes I detail below, the rerunning the 'make install' command completed successfully with out error. Also the 'make check' test passed successfully. Here is what I had to do though. The make script was only adding the fontconfig libraries to the /usr/lib directory. I had to move the old libfontconfig.so.1.0.4 library to a personal back-up directory. The install script added the 5 libraries 1)libfontconfig.a 2)libfontconfig.ls 3)libfontconfig.so -> libfontconfig.so.1.1.0 4)libfontconfig.so.1-> libfontconfig.so.1.1.0 5)libfontconfig.so.1.1.0 However the install didn't add the libraries to the lib64 directory. I needed to do this manually. I needed to move the old libfontconfig.a, libconfig.so.1.0.4 and two symbolic links libfontconfig.so and libfontconfig.so.1 which both pointed to libconfig.so.1.0.4 to my personal back- up directory. Then I was able to install the newly created libaries from make in this /usr/lib64 directory.
(In reply to comment #1) > the fc-cache program is clearly not pointing at the correct fontconfig library > for some reason. Instead, it is using the installed fontconfig library which > doesn't contain the new symbols. There is probably something in your > configuration which is breaking the way libtool executes programs before they > are installed. My solution was: # mv ld.so.cache ld.so.cache.borked # mv ld.so.conf ld.so.conf.borked You figure it out :)
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