[Buildroot] checking for XFT... configure: error: *** Required xft Librarys not found ***

[Buildroot] checking for XFT... configure: error: *** Required xft Librarys not found ***

[Franchitti, Alexandre J]

hi all,
I'm cross-compiling the linux kernel 2.6.28 for the ARM9 at91rm9200ek
target using buildroot-2009.05. Compiler is GCC-4.3.3, runtime is
uclibc.
I was able to get a kernel and NFS up and running. Now, I want to get
some window manager to run and I realized there was support for matchbox
from within buildroot in the 'package selection for the target' section
so I went ahead and tried to build it...

I keep hitting this build error related to building the
matchbox-keyboard-0.1 component:
checking for FAKEKEY... yes
checking for XFT... configure: error: *** Required xft Librarys not
found ***
make: ***
[/folk/alexf/arm_linux/buildroot-2009.05/build_arm/matchbox-keyboard-0.1
/.configured] Error 1

I believe I enabled everything I had to in order to get xft support but
it still won't fly. I even tried to disable keyboard support to move
ahead, but obviously, this is enabled by default when the
BR2_PACKAGE_MATCHBOX is enabled so I don't have a choice but get it
working. Note that I have auto-apt enabled also.

My host is Debian but I also tried Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4
(Nahant Update 7).

is this a problem with the host RPM/packages or with my buildroot
configuration?

thanks in advance,
Alex
 
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[Buildroot] checking for XFT... configure: error: *** Required xft Librarys not found ***

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:29:32 +0200,
"Franchitti, Alexandre J (Alex)" <alexandre.franchitti@windriver.com> a
?crit :

> I keep hitting this build error related to building the
> matchbox-keyboard-0.1 component:
> checking for FAKEKEY... yes
> checking for XFT... configure: error: *** Required xft Librarys not
> found ***
> make: ***
> [/folk/alexf/arm_linux/buildroot-2009.05/build_arm/matchbox-keyboard-0.1
> /.configured] Error 1
> 
> I believe I enabled everything I had to in order to get xft support
> but it still won't fly. I even tried to disable keyboard support to
> move ahead, but obviously, this is enabled by default when the
> BR2_PACKAGE_MATCHBOX is enabled so I don't have a choice but get it
> working. Note that I have auto-apt enabled also.

I've fixed the Matchbox build after 2009.05 release. It was fixed by
http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=51ef5b81224c243aa7f937c4690b1a120c81ccbc

This commit is not yet part of a stable release. So either pick the
latest Git development version, of manually apply the patch to the
2009.05 version.

Sincerly,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development,
consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] checking for XFT... configure: error: *** Required xft Librarys not found ***

[Franchitti, Alexandre J]

Newbie question...how do I apply a patch in buildroot ?

Alexandre Franchitti | Member Of Technical Staff
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-----Original Message-----
From: buildroot-bounces@busybox.net [mailto:buildroot-bounces at busybox.net] On Behalf Of Thomas Petazzoni
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:21 PM
To: buildroot at busybox.net
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] checking for XFT... configure: error: *** Required xft Librarys not found ***

Le Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:29:32 +0200,
"Franchitti, Alexandre J (Alex)" <alexandre.franchitti@windriver.com> a ?crit :

> I keep hitting this build error related to building the
> matchbox-keyboard-0.1 component:
> checking for FAKEKEY... yes
> checking for XFT... configure: error: *** Required xft Librarys not 
> found ***
> make: ***
> [/folk/alexf/arm_linux/buildroot-2009.05/build_arm/matchbox-keyboard-0
> .1
> /.configured] Error 1
> 
> I believe I enabled everything I had to in order to get xft support 
> but it still won't fly. I even tried to disable keyboard support to 
> move ahead, but obviously, this is enabled by default when the 
> BR2_PACKAGE_MATCHBOX is enabled so I don't have a choice but get it 
> working. Note that I have auto-apt enabled also.

I've fixed the Matchbox build after 2009.05 release. It was fixed by http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=51ef5b81224c243aa7f937c4690b1a120c81ccbc

This commit is not yet part of a stable release. So either pick the latest Git development version, of manually apply the patch to the
2009.05 version.

Sincerly,

Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com
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[Buildroot] checking for XFT... configure: error: *** Required xft Librarys not found ***

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:13:22 +0200,
"Franchitti, Alexandre J (Alex)" <alexandre.franchitti@windriver.com> a
?crit :

> Newbie question...how do I apply a patch in buildroot ?

There's nothing specific to Buildroot here, it's just a matter of
applying a patch just like with any other source code.

Just in case you're not familiar with applying patches, here is how you
can do that in a nutshell:

 1) Fetch the patch

    wget -O matchbox-fix.patch http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/patch/?id=51ef5b81224c243aa7f937c4690b1a120c81ccbc

 2) Go the Buildroot directory

    cd /the/path/to/your/buildroot/directory/

 3) Apply the patch

    cat /the/path/to/the/patch/matchbox-fix.path | patch -p1

Does that answer your question ?

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development,
consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com