Started this morning out wanting to use Rdesktop so i could start working more on my linux box.

Linux Redhat ES

The Rdesktop.rpm required Cairo. After a long string of downloading one file then another here is what I have:



ATK-1.9.1 (installed)
bzr-0.14 (installed)
cairo-1.2.6 (failed, required front-end Fontconfig and freetype)
fontconfig-2.3.2 (failed, compile error see below)
glib-2.6.6 (installed)
gtk+-2.6.9 (pending other dependencies)
jpeg-6b (installed)
libpng-1.2.8 (installed)
pango-1.8.2 (installed)
pkg-config-0.21 (installed)
tiff-3.7.4 (installed)



So the first question, is there an easier way then downloading each individual package above? I would download one, try to install it and find out i needed another one. Major PITA!!!

At this point I'm stuck. I can't install free type due to a compilcation error which is preventing me from installing Cairo, and thus GTK, and finally rdesktop (where I started 2 hrs. ago).


Here is the compile error. Obviously i'm not an expert user so if there's additional information that i should provide please let me know.


Thanks,
James


./configure is fine
make results with below:

(i just copied the bottom of the output, let me know if you need more)

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -fno-strict-aliasing -DFONTCONFIG_PATH=\"/usr/local/etc/fonts\" -I.. -I../src -g -O2 -MT fcfreetype.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/fcfreetype.Tpo -c fcfreetype.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/fcfreetype.o
fcfreetype.c:53:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
fcfreetype.c:58:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
fcfreetype.c:59:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
fcfreetype.c:60:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
fcfreetype.c: In function `FcGetPixelSize':
fcfreetype.c:953: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c: In function `FcFreeTypeQuery':
fcfreetype.c:1430: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1437: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1460: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1540: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: warning: implicit declaration of function `FT_MODULE_CLASS'
fcfreetype.c:1557: warning: nested extern declaration of `FT_MODULE_CLASS'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1557: error: invalid type argument of `->'
fcfreetype.c:1594: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c:1604: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fcfreetype.c: In function `GetScriptTags':
fcfreetype.c:2698: error: `TT_Face' undeclared (first use in this function)
fcfreetype.c:2698: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
fcfreetype.c:2698: error: for each function it appears in.)
fcfreetype.c:2698: error: syntax error before "tt_face"
fcfreetype.c:2707: error: `tt_face' undeclared (first use in this function)
fcfreetype.c:2710: warning: implicit declaration of function `FT_STREAM_POS'
fcfreetype.c:2710: warning: nested extern declaration of `FT_STREAM_POS'
fcfreetype.c:2714: warning: implicit declaration of function `FT_STREAM_SEEK'
fcfreetype.c:2714: warning: nested extern declaration of `FT_STREAM_SEEK'
fcfreetype.c:2714: warning: implicit declaration of function `FT_FRAME_ENTER'
fcfreetype.c:2714: warning: nested extern declaration of `FT_FRAME_ENTER'
fcfreetype.c:2717: warning: implicit declaration of function `FT_GET_USHORT'
fcfreetype.c:2717: warning: nested extern declaration of `FT_GET_USHORT'
fcfreetype.c:2719: warning: implicit declaration of function `FT_FRAME_EXIT'
fcfreetype.c:2719: warning: nested extern declaration of `FT_FRAME_EXIT'
fcfreetype.c:2735: warning: implicit declaration of function `FT_SET_ERROR'
fcfreetype.c:2735: warning: nested extern declaration of `FT_SET_ERROR'
fcfreetype.c:2735: warning: implicit declaration of function `FT_MEM_ALLOC_ARRAY'
fcfreetype.c:2735: warning: nested extern declaration of `FT_MEM_ALLOC_ARRAY'
fcfreetype.c:2735: error: syntax error before "FT_ULong"
fcfreetype.c:2744: warning: implicit declaration of function `FT_GET_ULONG'
fcfreetype.c:2744: warning: nested extern declaration of `FT_GET_ULONG'
fcfreetype.c:2775: warning: implicit declaration of function `FT_FREE'
fcfreetype.c:2775: warning: nested extern declaration of `FT_FREE'
fcfreetype.c:2702: warning: unused variable `memory'
fcfreetype.c: In function `FcFontCapabilities':
fcfreetype.c:2832: warning: nested extern declaration of `FT_FREE'
fcfreetype.c:2788: warning: unused variable `memory'
make[2]: *** [fcfreetype.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/local/downloads/fontconfig-2.3.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/local/downloads/fontconfig-2.3.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

hello .
i don't use redHat , but why don't you just check whether what you want to install is exists in the installation cd ... which means go to the kde package managment and search for it there ... because if it exists there ,the dependences will be istalled automaticaly ..!

good luck !

Huh? Doesn't Redhat have a package manager like Fedora does? That would really surprise me, becaue Redhat is only the commercial version of Fedora. In Fedora you would just type

yum -y install package

and it would automatically download any required dependencies, too. Yes, there is the occasional hitch but so far I've seen only two small dependency issues - and I must've downloaded several hundreds of packages and updates since FC6 came out.

http://sial.org/howto/yum/
http://www.eth0.us/yum-rhel
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=342206
may be of help to you

compiling from scratch something complicated like gnome and freinds is not for the uninitiated.

Hi.

The RHEL 4 / Update 4 that I have been using shows that:

rdesktop-1.3.1-5.i386

is available from up2date. See man page for details ... cheers, makyo

Unfortunately I can not use up2date or yum.

It is a work desktop and despite being forced to use RH enterprise we are not given subscriptions or access to auto-updates (supposedly a security concern).

Any tips on the compile error? I also recently heard about CentOS, is there a RPM I can download that will work with my version of RH?

my understanding of the error is:
this
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/free...ype-2.2.0.html
freetype used to leave exposed experimental defines for developement and testing purposes.
fontconfig starting using these non API includes when they should not have.
freetype took the includes out for cleaner code which broke fontconfig.

solution
use an older version of freetype

from now on if you need to compile a bunch of dependant stuff use a "beyond Linux from Scratch" book as a guide

FYI -

The fix was to install pkg-config first
then install the other packages ensuring Lib Xft is installed prior to Pango.