#192 ftheader.h not found

[hk298]

I'm trying to recompile xfe 1.37. If I build libfox (1.6.50) with "--with-xft=no" then I find the fonts in xfe unbearably ugly. If I build fox with "--with-xft=yes" or use a stock libfox from my distro (1.6.49), then xfe's configure script complains about not finding ftheader.h. It's looking for it in "freetype/config". My system (Mint 17 (Ubuntu 14.04)) has this header file in "freetype2/config". After creating a symbolic link I was able to compile again, but maybe someone could look into a better fix.

[J G Miller]

I am also affected by this bug on Linux Mint 17 and it is probably present on all Debian derivatives because the freetype headers are in freetype2 not freetype.

The configure script does succesfully find freetype-config and gets the correct CFLAGS and LDFLAGS

configure:14949: found /usr/bin/freetype-config
configure:14960: result: freetype-config
configure:14977: checking freetype/config/ftheader.h usability
configure:14977: g++ -c  -I/usr/local/X11R6/include/fox-1.6 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/X11R6/include conftest.cpp >&5
conftest.cpp:198:38: fatal error: freetype/config/ftheader.h: No such file or directory
#include <freetype/config/ftheader.h>

All that is needed to fix this problem is for the erroneous path element freetype to be dropped from the header line check and ftheader.h will be found thanks to the CFLAG include
-I/usr/include/freetype2

So the cure for the problem is to change, in confifgure.ac, the line from

AC_CHECK_HEADER(freetype/config/ftheader.h,,AC_MSG_ERROR("ftheader.h not found"))

to

AC_CHECK_HEADER(config/ftheader.h,,AC_MSG_ERROR("ftheader.h not found"))

and then run autogen.sh to recreate configure and then re-run configure (possibly needing to remove the subdirectory autom4te.cache or you will see no difference).

Creating a hack symlink /usr/include/freetype2 to /usr/include/freetype should NEVER be necessary.

Thankfully it looks like non of the source code has "freetype/" hardcoded in on an #include line.

[J G Miller]

I wrote in the message above:

"it is probably present on all Debian derivatives because the freetype headers are in freetype2 not freetype."

This is INCORRECT (just plain wrong in fact).

Further investigation reveals that on

Debian 7 with

Package: libfreetype6-dev
Maintainer: Steve Langasek vorlon@debian.org
Source: freetype
Version: 2.4.9-1.1

and on Linux Mint 16 (derived from Ubuntu 13.10) with

Package: libfreetype6-dev
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Source: freetype
Version: 2.4.12-0ubuntu1.1

the header files are under /usr/include/freetype2/freetype

But on the newer Linux Mint 17 (derived from Ubuntu 14.04) which has

Package: libfreetype6-dev
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Source: freetype
Version: 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.2

the header files are directly under /usr/include/freetype2 and there is no freetype sub-directory.

I do not know why the change was made nor why they packager did not include a courtesy link freetype -> . in the freetype2 directory to avoid this problem until other software code has had sufficient time to adapt to the change for using the headers directly under

/usr/include/freetype2

rather than

/usr/include/freetype2/freetype

[None]

Gentoo:

• Package: x11-misc/xfe-1.34

Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/xfe-1.34/work/xfe-1.34 ...

• econf: updating xfe-1.34/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
• econf: updating xfe-1.34/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-minimalflags --enable-nls --enable-sn --disable-debug
  [...]
  checking for fxfindfox in -lFOX-1.6... yes
  checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
  checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -E
  checking fox-1.6/fx.h usability... yes
  checking fox-1.6/fx.h presence... yes
  checking for fox-1.6/fx.h... yes
  checking for fox-config-1.6... no
  checking for fox-1.6-config... fox-1.6-config
  checking whether FOX was compiled with Xft support... yes
  checking for freetype-config... freetype-config
  checking freetype/config/ftheader.h usability... no
  checking freetype/config/ftheader.h presence... no
  checking for freetype/config/ftheader.h... no
  configure: error: "ftheader.h not found"

locate ftheader.h
/usr/include/freetype2/config/ftheader.h

[Roland Baudin]

This is fixed in Xfe 1.40.
Thanks for the bug report.
RB