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[abrahams@xxxxxxxxxxx (Paul W. Abrahams)]

Howard Arons wrote:

> Yes, it's xfstt again. I untarred the latest (V 1.0) source, and the
> g++ compile seems to go OK until link time, when it bombs out thus:
>
> -------- g++ compile message ---------------------------------------
> c++ -o xfstt RAFile.o TTFont.o NameTable.o HeadTable.o MaxpTable.o
> CmapTable.o LocaTable.o GlyfTable.o LtshTable.o HdmxTable.o VdmxTable.o
> FpgmTable.o PrepTable.o GaspTable.o HheaTable.o HmtxTable.o CvtTable.o
> Os2Table.o KernTable.o EbdtTable.o EblcTable.o RasterHints.o
> RasterScale.o
> RasterDraw.o xfstt.o encoding.o -g -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lm
> /usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: cannot open crtbegin.o: No such file or
> directory
> make: *** [xfstt] Error 1
> -------- g++ compile message ---------------------------------------
>
> I found the missing crtbegin.o in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3,
> and copied it to the xfstt source. Sigh, now 'make' gives another
> error:
>
> -------- g++ compile message ---------------------------------------
> /usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -lgcc: No such file or directory
> make: *** [xfstt] Error 1
> -------- g++ compile message ---------------------------------------
>
> That /usr/i486-linux/bin directory contains what seems to be circular
> links, linking filenames like ld to themselves. Is that possible?
>
> It looks like the SuSE install doesn't put libs, etc where g++  or
> xfstt expects to find them.
>
> What's going on? I compiled xfstt-0.9.9 under my old SuSE 5.2 without a
> problem.

You've been stung by the gcc/egcs problem.  Two compilers with a
mysterious, incestuous relationship to each other.   I encountered exactly
the same problems, though I can't remember whether it was with xfstt or
some other package.

What I *think* was the solution was to install egcs, which comes with the
SuSE distribution.  Alas, I don't remember for sure, and it might need
some other library installed also, like libgcc or whatever.  All this
stuff is totally undocumented, of course.   Or maybe I said something like
--with-gcc=no for the configuration.  I wish I could remember better what
the fix was, but maybe someone else can help there if a simple
installation of egcs doesn't do the trick.

Paul Abrahams


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