[tlbuild] (Unwanted?) Dependencies on libfreetype and libexpat on Solaris 10

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

2012/4/25 Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu>

> Hello,
>
> the Solaris 10 builds on both i386 and x86_64 show two dependencies on
>
>   2 /usr/sfw/lib/64/libexpat.so.0
>   2 /usr/sfw/lib/64/libfreetype.so.6
>
> (there's no /64/ on i386).  ldd shows these are pulled in by xetex and
> xdvipdfmx, and perusing
> build.log suggests this is due to /usr/sfw/bin/fontconfig being used. I
> wonder whether this is
> indesiderable, and if it is, what's the best course of action to remedy
> this.  gcc and g++ live in
>


You mean undesirable, right? Whatever you mean /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
is needed because
this is an API to configure and customize font access. Without them xetex
cannot work properly!


> /usr/sfw/bin.  I can try a build with the native compilers, and eliminate
> /usr/sfw/bin from the
> PATH, but didn't have much success with SUN's cc and CC in the past.
>
>
But this has nothing to do with the compiler!!!

A.S.

-- 
Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, GREECE
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