AIX build problems

[Perry Smith]

Thanks...


On Dec 21, 2005, at 3:03 PM, mcnichol at austin.ibm.com wrote:

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>> From: Perry Smith <pedz at easesoftware.net>
>> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:46:40 -0600
>> Subject: AIX build problems
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I guess, first, is this the right place for help with build
>> problems?  If not, can you please point me to a more appropriate
>> mailing list.
>>
>> I'm trying to build X11R6.8.2 on AIX 5.3 using IBM's compiler.  The
>> make dies in lib/fontconfig because SOFONTCONFIGREV is not set.
>> There is a line in the Makefile that uses it to create shell
>> variables for MAJ, MIN, and TEEN.  The command in the Makefile errors
>> off because a call to expr has only a + and no other arguments.
>>
>> I did not see any readme files or anything about how to build it on
>> aix so I basically just unpacked the tar ball and said make.
>>
>> Thank you for helping
>> Perry
>
> Hmmm...
>
> I hit the same problem, and forgot about it because my build scripts
> were automagically applying the following patch each time I downloaded
> and compiled.
>
>
>
> *** xc/lib/fontconfig/Imakefile.orig    Wed Dec 21 14:57:12 2005
> --- xc/lib/fontconfig/Imakefile Mon Dec 19 10:19:52 2005
> ***************
> *** 8,13 ****
> --- 8,14 ----
>   #define DoProfileLib ProfileLibFontconfig
>   #define HasSharedData YES
>   #define LibName fontconfig
> + SOFONTCONFIGREV=2.2.2
>   #define SoRev SOFONTCONFIGREV
>   #define LibInstall InstallFontconfigLibrary
>   #define LibHeaders InstallFontconfigLibrary
>
>
>
> Dan
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