Re: Build from source, get terrible fonts

At Sat, 22 Jun 2024 16:49:13 -0000 (UTC) Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

 
Luc <luc@sep.invalid> wrote:

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

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.

 
That is why it is not linking to xft, which implies there are still one
or more *-dev packs missing.
 

I don't know C. I don't understand compiling.

 
Look at Robert Heller's post under this message id:
 
<z5acnQ0TVobmduv7nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@giganews.com>
 
Then do what he suggests there.  That may show which *-dev pack is
still missing, but is required.

I just grabed the Tk8.6 debian file for Debian Bookworm (what I am running on
my Raspberry Pi 5) and the revlevant info is:

from the control file:
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~), x11proto-core-dev,
 libx11-dev, libxss-dev, libxext-dev, libxft-dev,
  tcl8.6-dev (>= 8.6.8+dfsg-3~)
 

So Luc needs:

sudo apt install  x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev libxss-dev libxext-dev libxft-dev

(probably only libxft-dev is actually needed)

He does not need debhelper-compat and dpkg-dev, since he is not building a
.deb file and does not need tcl8.6-dev, since he is building his own version
of tcl8.6 in a parallel directory and is alreaday accounting for that as
explained in the Tk source tree's README.

Then in rules:

override_dh_auto_configure:
        TK_LIBRARY="/usr/share/tcltk/tk$(v)" \
        CC="$(CC)" \
        CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" \
        CPPFLAGS="$(CPPFLAGS)" \
        TK_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS="-Wl,-soname,\$${TK_LIB_FILE}" \
        dh_auto_configure -Dunix -- \
                      --includedir=/usr/include/tcl$(v) \
                      --with-tcl=/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/tcl$(v) \
                      --enable-shared \

This tells him what extra args to pass to configure (probably nothing he is
not already doing).  It looks like all he needs to do is install libxft-dev
and he should be good to go.

I suspect that all downstream Debian based distros (Ubuntu, etc.) don't
re-package Tcl/Tk, beyond just using the base Debian build files.
                     

                                                 
 

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