Problem with xorg-vfbserver [and other -server] build[s]

Bakul Shah bakul at BitBlocks.com
Sun Jul 25 12:14:06 PDT 2004


> > I looked at X.org CVSweb, and they also have freetype2-2.1.8 in there.
> > Also, I tried looking at the port skeleton for xorg ports, but maybe I
> > did not understand it? There does not appear any steps to *not* use the
> > bundled freetype library during the build. Maybe it does not get
> > installed in the end, but this may be a reason why the package builds
> > suceed... in any event, I had to add "magic" lines in my host.def in
> > order to skip the bundled freetype library in favor of the system one,
> > and it works for me...

Chances are, you have an older libfreetype in /usr/X11R6/lib
(libfreetype.9 gets installed in /usr/local/lib)
so
    rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.*
and try again.


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