[MPlayer-users] Problems building mplayer CentOS 5.5 with autodetected "fontconfig"

[Raimund Steger]

Hi,

> [...]
> did you remove your old fontconfig library? If not, chances are that
> the linker still finds the old one first when linking...
> Be careful however if my assumption is true : it can break dependencies
> to upgrade a shared lib used by installed binaries.

I also think your linker might use an older version that ships with
CentOS. The configure script might not test this particular API.

Apparently FcFreeTypeQueryFace wasn't a public API before fontconfig-2.4.2
(http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/ChangeLog-2.4.2).

A simple way to find out which version ld would use with default
configuration:


$ cat >> test.c << EOF
int main(int argc,char **argv) { }
EOF

$ cc -o test -lfontconfig test.c

$ ldd test


Verify that 'test' links against your installed version, or run nm against
the version it reports and see if it has the symbol.

If not, I still wouldn't advise deleting the CentOS version (if you even
can), your sysadmin wouldn't be happy.

Instead, you can keep your own version somewhere and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
while compiling, and add an appropriate -R flag to configure so that
LD_LIBRARY_PATH isn't needed at runtime.

Raimund



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