On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:45:04 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > There are spurious dependencies in the output of xft-config --libs: > > -lXft -lX11 -lfreetype -lz -lfontconfig -lXrender -lX11 > > -lfreetype -lz -lfontconfig -lXrender are _not_ needed in -libs (since > the Xft _interface_ doesn't need functions from these libraries) and > just bring unneeded dependencies. They should be used only for linking > libXft.so itself, and put in xft-config --libs --static (for static > linking). > xft-config doesn't have a --static option, so it's kinda hard to know what unexporting these libs would break. People should use pkg-config instead, with the provided xft.pc file, which fixes this issue (pending the fix for #389831). So IMO the fix for this bug is to move all xft-config users to pkg-config, and to remove xft-config completely. Cheers, Julien
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