Re: FTC_MAnager_Lookup_Size

[David]

A kind soul mailed me the solution to my problem. He's not a member, so
I will repost it here for anyone having the same problem.

> Hello, David,
> I have read your message about this error in the help-gnustep mailing 
> list archieve. I have just overcame it at my own system (which is
> archlinux 0.7 as yours). The problem is in that freetype 2.1.8 and >
> newer are incompartible with gnustep art backend (due to some changes 
> in freetype api). So you have to download older version (e.g. one from
> archlinux 0.6 - 
> ftp://www.archlinux.org/0.6/os/i686/freetype2-2.1.7-1.pkg.tar.gz)
> and downgrade your package, doing like
> pacman -U /home/david/freetype2-2.1.7-1.pkg.tar.gz
> or where you placed it.

David wrote:

> I have just installed GNUstep, and I'd like to say how impressed I am 
> with it... except that I cannot run any of the programs! Whenever I 
> try to run a GNUstep app, I get the following error:
>
> $openapp Ink
>
> /opt/GNUstep/Local/Applications/Ink.app/Ink: symbol lookup error: 
> /opt/GNUstep/System/Library/Bundles/libgnustep-back.bundle/./libgnustep-back: 
> undefined symbol: FTC_Manager_Lookup_Size
>
> I'm running Archlinux, and used the gnustep pacman repository to 
> install gnustep. I have GSBoot.sh, gdnc, gpbs, gnustep_sndd, and 
> gdomap linked to /etc/rc.d and running as daemons. The GSXBoot.sh 
> daemon is in my .xinitrc file and GNUstep.sh gets sourced when I log on.
>
> It's worth noting that I'm running zsh and commented out the 
> zsh-specific lines in GNUstep.sh -- I couldn't source it otherwise. It 
> doesn't seem to do any harm, the proper paths are added and export 
> spits out all the GNUstep variables. I get the same lookup error using 
> bash, so my shell doesn't seem to be the problem.
>
> Any idea how to solve this problem? I'm really eager to try out some 
> GNUstep applications.