[GRASS-user] unable to locate ft2build.h

Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de
Mon Oct 5 10:56:49 EDT 2009


Manuel:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm trying to compile grass7 on a 64bit ubuntu 9.04.
> 
> Unfortunately, I get an error:
> 
> checking for location of FreeType includes... /usr/include/
> checking for ft2build.h... no
> configure: error: *** Unable to locate FreeType includes.
> manuel at L0118350:~/grass_trunk$ locate ft2build.h
> /usr/include/ft2build.h

> The thing is, that I give the path to the ft2build.h location, but I 
> still get the error.
> What can be wrong?

Hi Manuel!

What are the configuration parameters you use? Try to "include" the
following:

--with-freetype=yes
--with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/"

and (re-)compile.

Nikos



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