FYI... the fix is to download expat from http://expat.sourceforge.net
and build/install that.
Worked fine for me, and built with no issues. Then after a make clean,
fontconfig and such built.
Mike
Michael Prentice wrote:
> I''m running into the same problem. I tried just removing the
-lexpat
> from the build. And that causes fontconfig.so to build. But then
> when I try to build fc-cache:
>
>
> gcc -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFONTCONFIG_PATH=\"/etc/fonts\" -I..
-I.
> -I/net/acrolein/export/home/mprentic/include/freetype
> -I/net/acrolein/export/home/mprentic/include
> -I/net/acrolein/export/home/mprentic/include
> -I/net/acrolein/export/home/mprentic/include/freetype2 -o fc-cache
> fc-cache.o -L../src -lfontconfig
> Undefined first referenced
> symbol in file
> XML_SetCharacterDataHandler ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_SetDoctypeDeclHandler ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_GetBuffer ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_GetErrorCode ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_ErrorString ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_ParserCreate ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_ParserFree ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_GetCurrentLineNumber ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_SetUserData ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_ParseBuffer ../src/libfontconfig.so
> XML_SetElementHandler ../src/libfontconfig.so
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to fc-cache
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `fc-cache''
>
>
> So I assume that expat is all the XML stuff that I need...
>
>
> I guess there''s been no resolution to this in the last month?
>
> Mike
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Brent Bice fontconfig@fontconfig.org
> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:51:42 -0800 (PST)
>
> I''m havin'' trouble getting fontconfig to compile on
solaris. I''ve
> compiled expat (I *think* it''s ok - ar -t shows all the .o files)
but
> when
> I try to compile fontconfig, I get:
>
> Text relocation remains referenced
> against symbol offset in file
> <unknown> 0x19dc
> /usr/local/lib/libexpat.a(xmlparse.o)
> (and a jillion or so other <unknown>''s. - grin)
>
> I assume that this means something is wrong with my expat lib? There
> was no install for it, but it compiled with no errors. And I just copied
> the resulting .a file to /usr/local/lib and a handful of the .h files to
> /usr/local include. That oughta be ok, right?
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips you can offer......
>
> Brent
>
>
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