Done. Thanks,
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig > -- Akira TAGOH
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