Subject: Re: freetype2 required for fontconfig
To: NetBSD Packages Technical Discussion List <tech-pkg@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Roger Fischer <r@aileron.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/05/2003 10:43:46
At 1:24 PM -0400 10/5/03, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>[ On Sunday, October 5, 2003 at 09:16:18 (-0700), Roger Fischer wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: freetype2 required for fontconfig
>>
> > freetype2 is installed, but for some reason, it thinks files are
>missing, or
>> it appears to me that it thinks the freetype.h file is missing. The file
>> is there.
>
>I don't know if it's related but fontconfig also requires expat and the
>pkg-config template fails to account for this.
Looks like it's there.
{1} pkg_info | grep expat
expat-1.95.2 XML parser library written in C
>I've been testing the following additional patch for fonts/fontconfig
>
>--- fontconfig.pc.in.orig Wed Mar 5 01:09:14 2003
>+++ fontconfig.pc.in Thu Oct 2 01:39:30 2003
>@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@
> Name: Fontconfig
> Description: Font configuration and customization library
> Version: @VERSION@
>-Libs: -L${libdir} -lfontconfig
>+Requires: expat
>+Libs: -L${libdir} -lfontconfig -lexpat
> Cflags: -I${includedir}
>
>Perhaps it also needs to list "-lfreetype"?
OK, what would I do with this? Sorry, I'm not a programmer and don't
know much more about installing software than "make && make install".
When all the stuff goes buzzing by the screen, the only thing I know
is that it's building. I haven't a clue what any of it means.
Thanks,
- Rog