ports/x11-fonts/libXfont build fails

Florent Thoumie flz at xbsd.org
Fri Sep 26 10:42:56 UTC 2008


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Sean Burke <sean at xenadyne.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> And i only tried to install emacs. :-)
>
>
> -SEan
>
> My build failed with this message:
>
>  checking for freetype-config... no
>  configure: error: You must have freetype installed; see http://www.freetype.org/
>  ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
>  Please report the problem to x11 at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
>  "/usr/ports/x11-fonts/libXfont/work/libXfont-1.3.1/config.log" including the
>  output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to
>  provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls
>  /var/db/pkg`).

Check that freetype2 is installed. Also check that the freetype2.pc
file is in /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer


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