Re: Build failure in x11/kde-workspace4 after the recent native xorg upgrade.

[Sverre Froyen <sverre%viewmark.com@localhost>]

On 2013-06-08, at 16:30, Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost> wrote:

> On Sunday 09 June 2013 08:27:15 David Holland wrote:
>> ...the question really, though, is why it's trying to link in a static
>> library.
> 
> Indeed.  A quick check of a i386 modular x build (as thats what I have 
> handy) shows it linking the shared library:
> 
...
> 
> so don't know why its now not doing that for Sverre in the native x case.
> 

The .work.log shows that libXft.a is used consistently throughout the build and 
that libXft.so is never used. Any suggestions for figuring out how and where 
this choice is made? It looks like libXft is the only library for which the .a 
version is used.

Regards,
Sverre