4.10 RELEASE XFree86-4-library / fontconfig install problem

[Gary Aitken]

Thanks.  That was the hint I needed, in a round-about way.
I discovered some leftover stuff from my old 4.5 XFree86 installation,
and that was causing it.

Gary

Dejan Lesjak wrote:
...
>>I'm now trying to install XFree86 from the ports collection.
>>When I attempt to make XFree86-4-libraries,
>>it fails building fontconfig:
>>
>>fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1:" /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
>>/usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: Undefined symbol "FT_Get_BDF_Property"
>>*** Error code 1
>>
>>Any hints as to what's going on and how to fix / get around it?
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't know how to fix this or what would be causing it; I 
> wasn't able to reproduce this either under 4.10 or 5-current. But since you 
> asked for a workaround - you could comment out the following line in 
> x11-fonts/fontconfig/Makefile:
> 	@${SH} ${PKGINSTALL} ${PKGNAME} POST-INSTALL
> That would avoid building fontcache so the installation of other ports should 
> proceed.
> Perhaps the maintainers (gnome at freebsd.org) would know how to actually fix 
> this.
> 
> 
>>I've done a
>>   portupgrade -fFRNuv x11-fonts/fontconfig
>>   make
>>   make install (fails)
>>The error above occurs on the make install
>>
>>The dependencies I have installed are:
>>   expat-1.95.7
>>   freetype2-2.1.7_3
>>   gettext-0.13.1_1
>>   gmake-3.80_2
>>   libtool-1.3.4_2
>>   libtool-1.3.5_2
>>   pkgconfig-0.15.0_1
>>
>>Thanks for any insights.