[sldev] GTK 2.8

[Carsten Juttner]

Jesse Armand wrote:
> Currently, I haven't been able to compile llmozlib2, and I think it's
> related to GTK 2.4 dependencies.
>
> I have this errors:
>
> ../../dist/lib/components/libgfx_gtk.a(nsFontMetricsXft.o): In
> function `nsFontMetricsXft::CacheFontMetrics()':
> nsFontMetricsXft.cpp:(.text+0x15c6): undefined reference to `FT_MulFix'
> nsFontMetricsXft.cpp:(.text+0x1736): undefined reference to `FT_MulFix'
> nsFontMetricsXft.cpp:(.text+0x1916): undefined reference to `FT_Get_Sfnt_Table'
> nsFontMetricsXft.cpp:(.text+0x1944): undefined reference to `FT_MulFix'
> nsFontMetricsXft.cpp:(.text+0x1a58): undefined reference to `FT_MulFix'
>   

I had the same problem, it's not related to GTK, the newer mozilla build 
process simply added a new linker flag that demands that all symbols 
have to be resolved for object files at link time.

Ft_MulFix and the other unresolved symbols are part of the 
freetype2-library but the mozilla build does not add it to the link line 
probably because the mozilla guys believed that the linker flags derived 
from the pkg-config reply for Xft would already include the freetype 
library.

But for my distro (Kubuntu Feisty) this is not the case, obviously 
because you don't need to call the freetype API when using the Xft API 
so the usage of freetype is private to Xft.

For a quick fix try to remove the "DSO_LDOPTS ="$DSO_LDOPTS -Wl,-z,defs" 
lines from configure.in

Regards,
Carsten