On 15-01-16 11:01 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >>> ./configure: line 14023: syntax error near unexpected toke 'FREETYPE,' >>> ./configure: line 14023: 'PKG_CHECK_MODULES (FREETYPE, freetype2)' >> >> The error looks like as if configure script is incorrect; >> PKG_CHECK_MODULES() is a macro for pkg-config, it should be expanded >> to appropriate sh-script. I'm afraid that autogen (or something else >> to generate configure script from its skelton) did not finish >> correctly. FreeType is not responsible with the trouble, I guess. > > Your analysis is correct, however, it's not that simple in general. > For example, let's assume a GNU/Linux distribution. The default > versions of the autotools are in /usr, and add-on M4 files like > `pkg.m4' (which contains the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro) are put into > /usr/share/aclocal. > > Now imagine that you are going to manually install a new version of > the autotools, which are then stored in the /usr/local hierarchy. If > you now repeat the configuring process, you get exactly the above > error. The reason of the problem is that by default the autotools in > the /usr/local/ hierarchy don't look into /usr/share/aclocal. > > There are different solutions. > > 1. Modify or set the `M4PATH' variable to make M4 find the directory > holding your system's `pkg.m4' file. > > 2. Always add a proper `--include' command line option to the > autotools. > > 3. Copy the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal' to > `/usr/local/share/aclocal'. > > I don't really like any of the solutions, since they require manual > intervention and are thus error-prone. For this reason, I've already > added `pkg.m4' directly to FreeType to avoid any problems while > configuring FreeType itself. > > Behdad, you've added `pkg.m4' to harfbuzz, probably for identical > reasons. What do you think of doing the same for fontconfig? +fontconfig list. I think Akira can do that. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
