Re: Build from source, get terrible fonts

On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 12:05:01 +0200, Joerg Mertens wrote:

Just making sure: have you started the recompile in a clean source
tree? Safest way is to delete and unpack it again.

I always delete and unpack again.

What does the configure output look like? Was it still unable to
find the missing libraries?

It looks bad. It says "xft is unusable." I don't understand that at all.
I don't know C. I don't understand compiling.


checking for Tcl configuration... found /home/luc/newtcl/tcl8.6.14/unix/tclConfig.sh
checking for existence of /home/luc/newtcl/tcl8.6.14/unix/tclConfig.sh... loading
checking for tclsh... /usr/bin/tclsh8.6
checking for tclsh in Tcl build directory... /home/luc/newtcl/tcl8.6.14/unix/tclsh
checking whether to use symlinks for manpages... no
checking whether to compress the manpages... no
checking whether to add a package name suffix for the manpages... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for inline... inline
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking if the compiler understands -pipe... yes
checking for pthread_mutex_init in -lpthread... yes
checking for pthread_attr_setstacksize... yes
checking for pthread_atfork... yes
checking for building with threads... yes (threaded core)
checking how to build libraries... shared
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking if 64bit support is requested... yes
checking if 64bit Sparc VIS support is requested... no
checking if compiler supports visibility "hidden"... yes
checking if rpath support is requested... yes
checking system version... Linux-4.9.0-3-amd64
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking for ar... ar
checking if compiler accepts -m64 flag... yes
checking for cast to union support... yes
checking for working -fno-lto... yes
checking for build with symbols... no
checking for required early compiler flags... none
checking for 64-bit integer type... using long
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for fd_set in sys/types... yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking for mode_t... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... yes
checking for intptr_t... yes
checking for uintptr_t... yes
checking pw_gecos in struct pwd... yes
checking for X... libraries , headers
checking for main in -lXbsd... no
checking whether to use xft... no
configure: WARNING: Can't find xft configuration, or xft is unusable
checking for X11/XKBlib.h... no
checking whether XKeycodeToKeysym is deprecated... yes
checking whether to try to use XScreenSaver... yes
checking for X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h... no
checking for XScreenSaverQueryInfo... no
checking for XScreenSaverQueryInfo in -lXext... no
checking for XScreenSaverQueryInfo in -lXss... no
checking whether char is unsigned... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating tkConfig.sh
config.status: creating tk.pc


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Luc

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