Re: [Silgraphite-devel] Towards a release

[Jonathan K. <jon...@si...>]

On 26 Jun 2007, at 8:48 am, Martin Hosken wrote:

> Dear Jonathan,
>> Anyhow, here's what I tried: checked out trunk, and ran autoreconf,
>> hoping this would work (I think it has in the past). Result:
>>
>>
>>> $ autoreconf --install
>>> grep: /usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4: No such file or directory
>>> libtoolize: warning: no serial number on `/usr/local/share/aclocal/
>>> libtool.m4'
>>>
>
> Weird, since I see nothing about /usr/local/share/aclocal anywhere  
> in my
> setup or anything. Sounds like a problem with your autoreconf.

That's entirely possible!

>
>>> $ autoreconf --install
>>> Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `config'.
>>> Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `config'.
>>> Makefile.am:7: variable `FT2_LIBS' not defined
>>> Makefile.am:7: variable `GR2_LIBS' not defined
>>> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
>>>
>>
>> These two variables occur in wrappers/freetype/Makefile.am, but it's
>> not clear (to me) what I should do about them, or why the autostuff
>> is wanting them to be defined.
>>
>
> These come from pkgconfig. So if you have that installed then you  
> won't
> have a problem.

Oh, OK. Shouldn't something have told me this, if I was missing a  
required tool?

> I think you can set the variables FT2_LIBS (to something
> like -lfreetype -lz), FT2_CFLAGS (-I/usr/include/freetype2),

How would I set these? I tried running autoreconf using

   $ FT2_LIBS="-lfreetype -lz" GR2_LIBS="-lgraphite" autoreconf -- 
force --install

but got the same error messages that these two variables are not  
defined.

Alternatively, suppose I don't have freetype installed; shouldn't it  
notice this and just skip that wrapper?

Sorry, all this auto-stuff is pretty mysterious to me!

JK