On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 21:55:24 -0500, James Vega wrote: > reassign 556064 libxft-dev 2.1.12-3 > retitle 556064 fontconfig incorrectly listed as a private library > thanks > > As shown below, the patch introduced in #389831 incorrectly moved > fontconfig to Requires.private. Thus, packages linking against Xft with > --no-add-needed (or binutils-gold) FTBFS. This can also be verified by > seeing that many of the symbols defined by Xft are simply a #define of > XftFoo to FcFoo. > All those macros are in the XftCompat header though, which seems to imply that users should use the fontconfig names instead nowadays, and link to fontconfig themselves? A similar change is now upstream in libXft 2.2.0 fwiw: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXft/commit/?id=8751e341bcc29952b4603e18767ab994653c6b01 Cheers, Julien
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