Hello Guillem,<br>
<br>
Some time ago we filed a bug against libdirectfb. This was in regards
to having .a's added so that we can compile Splashy statically. [1]<br>
<br>
Over the last few months I have noted a number of problems/inconsistencies with the debian package for directfb:<br>
<br>
1. directfb-config doesn't work<br>
2. the .a and other devel libs are included with libdirectfb-$VER and not in libdirectfb-dev as they should be<br>
3. some .a's are missing, the most important of which is
/usr/lib/directfb-0.9.22/interfaces/IDirectFBFont/libidirectfbfont_ft2.a<br>
<br>
I have not filed any bugs against the package waiting for the right
time (until we fully understand everything that was needed). I have
modified directfb-config so that it allows static compilations to work
on a debian system. You can get the latest version of this script from
our project svn repo on Alioth. [2]<br>
That script needs more work as it needs to find the correct path for
the library files (when doing static compilations). For now they are
simply hard coded in the script. This should be easy to fix though.
After that, it could be submitted upstream.<br>
<br>
I have tried unsucessfully to compile the directfb sources to include the ft2.a library. Could you help us with that?<br>
<br>
I'll file bugs for other issues with the libdirectfb package if you
think the bug reports will help you better in keeping track of the
issues mentioned above.<br>
<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304983">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304983</a><br clear="all">[2] <a href="http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/splashy/trunk/directfb-config?op=file&rev=0&sc=0">
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/splashy/trunk/directfb-config?op=file&rev=0&sc=0</a><br><br>
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