196269 - Building with --enable-xft uses libXft.so.1, not libXft.so.2

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Anthony Baxter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030307 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030307 Phoenix/0.5

I'm building the current Phoenix CVS using the http://phoenix.ragweed.net/build 
instructions. I'm building on a Redhat7.3 machine. I've downloaded and installed
fontconfig and Xft2, they're installed in /usr/local. RH ships with Xft1
installed in /usr/X11R6/lib. The pkg-config --libs xft shows all the right 
options, but when I look at the built dist/bin/components/libgfx_gtk.so
with ldd, I see:
        libXft.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1 (0x404db000)

Attempting to run with this library fails with 
./dist/bin/phoenix-bin: relocation error:
/home/anthony/src/phoenix/mozilla/dist/bin/components/libgfx_gtk.so: undefined
symbol: XftLockFace

It _should_ be getting linked with libXft.so.2. The only solution I've found is
to make a symlink libXft.so.1 pointing to /usr/local/lib/libXft.so.2, and put
that symlink in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH when running Phoenix. 
I can't put that (bogus) symlink in the system LD path, obviously, as it breaks
all other applications linked with libXft1.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build code
2. Look at output of ldd
3.

Actual Results:  
It linked with the wrong library.

Expected Results:  
Should have linked with libXft.so.2

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

->blizzard

Comment 2

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Yeah, this is a system config issue - not a lot I can do here.