porting: Linux to Freebsd

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> (from Tue, 9 Jun 2009  
08:34:46 -0400):

>
> Alexander Leidinger writes:
>
>>  >>  Obvious question but if you edited configure.ac, you did remember to
>>  >>  rerun autoconf afterwards didn't you?
>>  >
>>  > 	Uh ... no.  (When I said "complete novice", wasn't kidding. :-)
>>
>>  Not knowing C/++ when you want to port a C/C++ program makes it very
>>  hard for you to reach your goal...
>
> 	C, I know.  (Though not as much as other folks.)
> 	GNU build tools ... not so much.
> 	:-)
>
> 	Anyway: many hours of compilation later, I hit this:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lttf
>
> 	Quick checking suggests libttf is a Linux-ism, replaced by
> libfreetype.  Is this correct, and if so can I just (temporarily)
> make the change in the list of libraries?

Why not just try it?

Note, there is/was freetype1 and freetype2...

Bye,
Alexander.

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