136194 - Configure complains about Freetype, hence it is installed correctly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Carsten Menke]

The Configure Script complains about not finding Freetype, but it definitley finds 
freetype-config.

The output of freetype-config points to the correct locations of freetype, and
Freetype is installed correctly.

Configure complains:

checking for freetype-config... (cached) /usr/bin/freetype-config
checking for FreeType - version >= 6.1.0... no
*** The FreeType test program failed to run.  If your system uses
*** shared libraries and they are installed outside the normal
*** system library path, make sure the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH
*** (or whatever is appropiate for your system) is correctly set.
checking for freetype-config... (cached) /usr/bin/freetype-config
checking for FreeType - version >= 8.0.2... no

Output of freetype-config:

freetype-config --version
6.1.0

freetype-config --cflags
-I/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2

freetype-config --libs
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lfreetype

freetype-config --prefix
/usr/X11R6

I remarked this first on yesterdays build (April 7th 2002), probably it has been
there for a longer time
don't know.

Comment 1

[kill this account]

The test for FreeType2 is done by freetype2.m4 which came from the FreeType2 
distribution:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/build/autoconf/freetype2.m4

Could you add some diagnostic (echo) statements to that and see what is 
happening?

Note: When debugging the config system a full rebuild is not necessary.
Just do an 'autoconf' and a './configure' and see what the config.* files 
report.

Also, would you kindly add info on the OS?

Comment 2

[Carsten Menke]

OS is Linux Mandrake 8.0 with freetype2.0.2, gcc-2.95.3, glib-2.2.2, gtk-1.2.10,
kernel-2.4.8-ac7

I have done autoconf and then ./configure. But I don't understand what exactly I
should echo of the freetype2.m4 The file seems to be the same then the one of lxr.

Comment 3

[tenthumbs]

It's a little strange that mozilla is using the _cached_ 
  /usr/bin/freetype-config
which is not the same as
 `freetype-config --prefix`/bin/freetype-config

Perhaps there is more than one freetype-config on the system.
Try "which freetype-config". There may also be a stale config.cache or 
even an old config.site lying around.

Comment 4

[kill this account]

I had a Mandrake user with a very similar problem (bug 127674).

Is /usr/X11R6/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable or in
/etc/ld.so.conf?

If not, could you add /usr/X11R6/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and run 'ldconfig' (as
root) and try again.

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Other thoughts:

> The file seems to be the same then the one of lxr.

Yes, it should be the same. This is the code (from FreeType)
that checks if FreeType2 is available on the (your) development system.

> checking for FreeType - version >= 6.1.0... no
> *** The FreeType test program failed to run.  If your system uses

This message comes from line 125 of freetype2.m4
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/build/autoconf/freetype2.m4#125

> what exactly I should echo of the freetype2.m4

Starting at the failure report line I'm hoping you can to "back up" to the 
failure point and see exactly what is failing.

Perhaps you could extract the embedded test program and look in the config.* 
files to find the compile and link lines to build it manually.

Comment 5

[Carsten Menke]

@tenthumbs I have only one freetype-config, due to another problem I pulled a
fresh tree so there should be no other cached files lying around. The _cached_
may be come from that I build not the first time with this tree, hence I always
run: make -f cient.mk distclean

@Brian
I was the user with that problem, and since then I changed nothing. Probably I
didn't remark that error, before.

@All

Ok, then I will go thru freetype2.m4 and see if I can get the test program to
compile manually.

Comment 6

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Can you attach the config.log from the busted configure run?

Comment 7

[Carsten Menke]

Attachment: Config.log

I think I found the error myself now, it's in Row 480. This is funny, I
installed freetype2 from source with just the prefix /usr/X11R6 and it is not
getting the files placed correctly.

The file ft2build.h is there it is under:
/usr/X11R6/include/ft2build.h

Comment 8

[Carsten Menke]

OK, Problem solved.

Really strange thing, however I installed freetype-2.0.2 from source and added
--prefix=/usr/X11R6
it put ft2build.h under /usr/X11R6/include but expects to see it under
/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2

I symlinked it now:

ln -s /usr/X11R6/include/freetype2/ft2build.h  /usr/X11R6/include/ft2build.h 

freetype gets found and the problem seems to be gone, will add this also to the
other bug.

Comment 9

[Carsten Menke]

Marking as fixed