For reference, I build on Mountain Lion, with latest XCode, recent XQuartz, and some MacPorts.
"grep opt/local config.log" produces: configure:6295: result: /opt/local/bin/gsed configure:8107: found /opt/local/bin/port configure:10420: found /opt/local/bin/pkg-config configure:10432: result: /opt/local/bin/pkg-config configure:30314: /usr/llvm-gcc-4.2/bin/llvm-g++-4.2 -o conftest -L/opt/local/lib -lfreetype conftest.cpp -lfreetype >&5 configure:31661: found /opt/local/bin/ccache configure:31673: result: /opt/local/bin/ccache ac_cv_path_CCACHE=/opt/local/bin/ccache ac_cv_path_SED=/opt/local/bin/gsed ac_cv_path_ac_pt_PKG_CONFIG=/opt/local/bin/pkg-config pkg_cv_FREETYPE2_CFLAGS='-I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include ' pkg_cv_FREETYPE2_LIBS='-L/opt/local/lib -lfreetype ' CCACHE='CCACHE_COMPRESS=1 CCACHE_SLOPPINESS=time_macros /opt/local/bin/ccache' FREETYPE2_CFLAGS='-I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include ' FREETYPE2_LIBS='-L/opt/local/lib -lfreetype' PACKAGE_PATH='/opt/local' PKG_CONFIG='/opt/local/bin/pkg-config' SED='/opt/local/bin/gsed' and also: port list installed | egrep 'ccache|freetype|gsed|pkg-config' ccache @3.1.9 devel/ccache freetype @2.4.10 print/freetype gsed @4.2.2 textproc/gsed On 2013-03-15, at 2:53 PM, David DeHaven <david.deha...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> Then it stumbled upon freetype, which it should not need either. I added >> --with-freetype, but it failed to recognise .dylib as the library suffix: >> >> configure: error: Could not find libfreetype.so nor freetype.dll in >> /opt/local/lib > > > IIRC Freetype is required for libfontmanager when building OpenJDK (not > closed) but it doesn't seem to differentiate when configure is run. > > Look in config.log to see why it's failing. The error message is misleading, > it's not actually looking for those extensions it's checking by using the > CFLAGS returned by pkg-config. Mine works fine with the MacPorts freetype > port. > > -DrD- >
