Hey there, 2015-12-07 16:51 GMT+01:00, Matthew of Boswell <mordervomubel+suckl...@lockmail.us>: > Huh? What OS/distro are you guys using that you don't already have > libxft? I have so many packages that rely on it.
Mainstream Linux distros fought with all their might against gcc to fit their OS into the CD-ROM boundaries. The funny gcc and glibc behaviour, namely production of big binaries, led to a common habit in distro development: create 2 or 3 packages per instance, one for the program (the .so file or the executable), a second one for symbols and, in debianland, a third one for docs. You can't compile anything without the -devel or -dev package, if you hadn't compile the lib in the first place. So probably they'll succeed when they will fire up their package manager to install libXft-dev or -devel.
