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Luke's Auto-Rice Bootstrapping Scripts: Installation Scripts for My Arch Linux Meta-Distribution
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libxft-bgra-git build fails #471

Closed ghost closed 1 year ago

ghost commented 1 year ago

The libxft-bgra-git AUR package uses an outdated patch, so the build currently fails.

It seems that support for BGRA glyphs has FINALLY been merged, so current workarounds are waiting for a new libXft release or creating a libxft-gitPKGBUILD.

LukeSmithxyz commented 1 year ago

Man, if they finally merged this it will be such a massive relief when it starts hitting distros. Wow. Literally years of waiting for this...

In the meantime, yeah everything is broken lol. The onus is on Arch/Artix to get this out quick or on someone, as you said, making a new updated AUR PKGBUILD.

ghost commented 1 year ago

Yeah it was a huge annoyance, since the build fails every now and then so LARBS can't even be installed.

Arch updates packages when the developers release a new stable version, so in the case of libXft it can take months. If somebody could write up a PKGBUILD and publish it in the AUR with the aforementioned name, that would be nice :P

ghost commented 1 year ago

I solved it on my arch machine, by manually cloning it and installing it from there.

Here are the steps I did

  1. git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft.git
  2. cd libxft
  3. sh autogen.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
  4. sudo make clean install

And it's done, refresh your dwm and it will just work.

Oh, and you also need xorg-utils-macros package.

misopog commented 1 year ago

is there a way to do it at startup ?

ghost commented 1 year ago

@misopog It's just one time setup.

budRich commented 1 year ago

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libxft-git

ghost commented 1 year ago

Appreciate it!

ghost commented 1 year ago

@LukeSmithxyz in the voidrice repo the shell profile file still warns if you haven't installed libxft-bgra, so see this PR as well

ghost commented 1 year ago

@LukeSmithxyz it seems that you can't use the --noconfirm flag in pacman if there's a package conflict, so the libxft-git package doesn't install smh