On Thursday, February 13, 2003 02:42 pm, Paul Dorman wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> been trying to get XFree86-4.3 to compile from src.rpm for a pretty
> clean Mandrake 9.0 install (also tried XFree86-4.2.99.5 - same
> problem). I've upgraded the freetype2 packages from src.rpm, as
> well as autoconf and autoconf2.5.
>
> The compile goes fine (rpm -ba --target athlon XFree86.spec), but
> at the very end I get the following message:
>
> RPM build errors:
> File not found: /var/tmp/XFree86-root/usr/X11R6/bin/xftcache
>
> Very annoying because that directory is reinitialised each build,
> so manually copying the file (which I have in /usr/X11/bin) is
> futile. I'd like to find the true source of this so I can get this
> done. I recompiled XFree86 five times yesterday, and even if I use
> --short-circuit -bc I'm still going to wait quite a bit before I
> know if the bug is fixed.
>
> Thankyou very very much for your time and ... your solution!
>
> Best regards,
> Paul Dorman.
>
> PS Just in case you are curious, the reason I am doing this is
> because I have applied the patches required for multi-head,
> multi-xdm, multi-keyboard, multi-mice XFree86. Info can be found
> at:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~andreas/aivils/
>
> Salut!
Try upgrading fontconfig as well. Then change line 27 of the spec file from:
%define with_new_fontconfig_Xft 0
to
%define with_new_fontconfig_Xft 1
Worked for me on 4.3.
On 4.2.99 I had to comment out lines 1523-25:
%if ! %{with_new_fontconfig_Xft}
/usr/X11R6/bin/xftcache
%endif
Good Luck,
Arn
