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custom fork of the fluxbox windowmanager

build fix: revert e38994ae727a3bc7fa77f45d5bdbb97dffcbd1e5

'xft-config' is deprecated (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-March/006750.html)
and does not exist anymore on 'bleeding edge' versions (gentoo). 'pkg-config'
is the new way of doing things. 'pkg-config --libs xft' does only report
the libs needed and the linker finds out other dependencies on its own. currently,
'pkg-config' (version 0.25) reports only '-lXft'.

if the user wants for example LDFLAGS="-fuse-ld=gold --no-add-needed" then
all the needed libs must be produced, otherwise linkage fails. at the moment
it seems that fluxbox calls 'XftMatrixRotate()' and 'XftPatternAddMatrix()'
which both seems to trigger the need for 'fontconfig':

   undefined reference to 'FcMatrixRotate'
   undefined reference to 'FcPatternAddMatrix'

is 'pkg-config --libs xft' reporting to few libs? in comparison to
'xft-config --libs' for sure. bug? feature? i am not sure. there are
several ways to address this issue:

* append the needed libs manually via LIBS or LDFLAGS

  env LIBS="-lfontconfig" ./configure

* change build-system of fluxbox to do something like

   pkg-config --print-requires-private 'xft' 2> /dev/null || echo xft)`

(pkg-config version < 0.2x does not have --print-requires-private, which
 then leads to not print out all libs needed, which would then require
 a fallback to xft-config since an older system anyways, evidence is
 old pkg-config)

* changing build-system of fluxbox to use something like:

  pkg-config --static --libs xft

(which reports really all libs, even more than actually needed, check out
  http://osdir.com/ml/debian-bugs-closed/2011-01/msg01112.html)

* fix 'pkg-config' (or the related xft.pc) to report '-lXft -lfontconfig'
(not our code, but preferable)

* use 'pkg-config --libs xft fontconfig' since we know that calling the
xft functions requires linking against 'fontconfig' as well:

  pkg-config --libs xft fontconfig

which is what we use to get rid of the build-errors
Mathias Gumz akira at fluxbox dot org
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@@ -170,24 +170,24 @@ AC_DEFUN([AM_PATH_XFT2],

[ if test x$pkg_exec_prefix != x ; then xft_args="$xft_args --exec-prefix=$pkg_exec_prefix" - if test x${XFT_CONFIG+set} != xset ; then - XFT_CONFIG=$pkg_exec_prefix/bin/xft-config + if test x${PKG_CONFIG+set} != xset ; then + PKG_CONFIG=$pkg_exec_prefix/bin/pkg-config fi fi if test x$xft_prefix != x ; then - xft_args="$xft_args --prefix=$xft_prefix" - if test x${XFT_CONFIG+set} != xset ; then - XFT_CONFIG=$xft_prefix/bin/xft-config - fi + xft_args="$xft_args --prefix=$xft_prefix" + if test x${PKG_CONFIG+set} != xset ; then + PKG_CONFIG=$xft_prefix/bin/pkg-config + fi fi - AC_PATH_PROG(XFT_CONFIG, xft-config, no) - if test "x$XFT_CONFIG" = "xno" ; then + AC_PATH_PROG(PKG_CONFIG, pkg-config, no) + if test "x$PKG_CONFIG" = "xno" ; then ifelse([$2], , :, [$2]) - else - XFT_CFLAGS=`$XFT_CONFIG $xftconf_args --cflags` - XFT_LIBS=`$XFT_CONFIG $xftconf_args --libs` + else + XFT_CFLAGS=`$PKG_CONFIG $xftconf_args --cflags xft fontconfig` + XFT_LIBS=`$PKG_CONFIG $xftconf_args --libs xft fontconfig` ifelse([$1], , :, [$1]) fi ])