[GRASS-dev] freetype on gentoo

Stefán István stefi at geohidroterv.hu
Fri May 19 07:07:38 EDT 2006


péntek 19 május 2006 11.43 dátummal Glynn Clements ezt írta:
> 
> Stef-Bán István wrote:-A
> 
> > I would like to compile Grass with freetype support, but the configure 
fails:
> > checking for location of FreeType includes... 
> > checking for ft2build.h... no
> > configure: error: *** Unable to locate FreeType includes.
> > 
> > I'm using Gentoo and I have installed freetype package, and the ft2build.h 
> > file is in the /usr/include directory, so I don't understand why Grass 
> > doesn't find it, even if I add  --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include to 
the 
> > configure script.
> 
> You need --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2.
> 
> ft2build.h simply includes <freetype/config/ftheader.h>. In order to
> be able to find that header, /usr/include/freetype2 has to be added to
> the compiler's include path.
> 
> Note that header checks don't simply try to locate a file with a given
> name, they try to use it (i.e. preprocess a test program which
> includes the specified header).
> 
> More generally, if a configure test fails, the contents of the
> config.log file will provide an indication of exactly what the test
> did and any error messages which it generated.

Thank you very much, it works now.

Best regards,
Istvan




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