[Wvware-devel] clueless on libwmf compilation. Help needed!

[Enrique A. C. <ech...@af...>]

Hi!
Maybe the message is a little bit off-topic for a developers
list, but i've been unable to find a better place for asking :)
I have been trying to compile libwmf-0.1.21, but ./configure
complains about lack of ttf libraries:

[root@katana libwmf]# ./configure --with-ttf=/usr
<...snip...>
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking for freetype.h... (cached) no
checking for freetype/freetype.h... (cached) no
configure: warning: TrueType library not installed. Please visit
http://www.freetype.org and try again. The GD binding will not be
able to handle wmf text and wmftogif will not have text support as a
result (see README).
<...snip...>

I compiled freetype2 from scratch. freetype's /lib and /include
were originally placed at /usr/local/lib and 
/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype. After having the error,
i moved freetype.h and other stuff under ../../freetype2/freetype
to /usr/local/include/freetype, but the error persists. So i moved
all the stuff to /usr/lib and /usr/include/freetype. (Yes, i ran
ldconfig on each case...) and the error is still there :(

/usr/lib now contains:
[root@katana libwmf]# ls -al /usr/lib/libfr*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1272592 Feb 20 17:32
/usr/lib/libfreetype.a
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          666 Feb 20 17:32
/usr/lib/libfreetype.la*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Feb 20 17:32
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so -> libfreetype.so.6.0.0*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Feb 20 18:33
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 -> libfreetype.so.6.0.1*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       761747 Feb 20 17:32
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       245408 Dec 13 06:17
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.0.1*

and /usr/include/freetype now contains:
[root@katana libwmf]# ls -al /usr/include/freetype
total 528
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Feb 20 18:32 ./
drwxr-xr-x   60 root     root         8192 Feb 20 18:30 ../
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Feb 20 17:32 cache/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Feb 20 17:32 config/
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       150323 Feb 20 17:32 freetype.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3905 Feb 20 17:32 ftbbox.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        21330 Feb 20 17:32 ftcache.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8454 Feb 20 17:32 fterrors.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        28652 Feb 20 17:32 ftglyph.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        64732 Feb 20 17:32 ftimage.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        14078 Feb 20 17:32 ftlist.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4545 Feb 20 17:32 ftmac.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10174 Feb 20 17:32 ftmm.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        16668 Feb 20 17:32 ftmodule.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7588 Feb 20 17:32 ftnames.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        21653 Feb 20 17:32 ftoutln.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10295 Feb 20 17:32 ftrender.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3289 Feb 20 17:32 ftsynth.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3707 Feb 20 17:32 ftsystem.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        23255 Feb 20 17:32 fttypes.h
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Feb 20 17:32 internal/
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7816 Feb 20 17:32 t1tables.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        37880 Feb 20 17:32 ttnameid.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        31677 Feb 20 17:32 tttables.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3413 Feb 20 17:32 tttags.h

I tried to ignore the message and went on anyway (make | make install).
Then i started compilng wv, but...
[root@katana wv]# ./configure
or
[root@katana wv]# ./configure --with-wmf=/usr/local --with-ttf=/usr
give the following warning:
<...snip...>
creating magick/Makefile
creating config.h
config.h is unchanged
configure: warning: Could not find gdwmf library or some of its
components: libwv *will* build but will not have wmf to png support: see
README
configure: warning: Could not find ttf library or some of its
components: libwv *will* build but will not have text in its wmf to png
support: see README
[root@katana wv]# 

The programs resulting from make | make install generate hyeroglyphic
output (i.e., completely unreadable). At this point, i feel clueless.
Any help will be appreciated.

Configuration details:
Linux 2.4.1 on PentiumIII
gcc 2.95.3
GNU Make version 3.79

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Thanks,
Enrique
 
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