Unfortunately, when trying to get ImageMagick 7 + php-imagick to work on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, one of the steps of the compilation requires /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.la.
I guess that for some arcane reason, ImageMagick 7 won't be supported until (hopefully) groovy is out, but that doesn't mean that some of us don't need it *now*. ImageMagick 7 was released in April 2016 — that's well over four years now — has had 6688 commits to GitHub and 227 releases as of today, so it's definitely very robust and mature code, and supported by almost every other distribution I'm aware of (including macOS via Homebrew!), so I hardly understand why it has been absent from Ubuntu for so long. Still, I guess that's the decision of someone else, and the point is that we have no other option than to compile it from sources — and that inevitably means dealing with things such as libfreetype.la to be present in the system... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to freetype in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1866365 Title: Missing /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.la file Status in freetype package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: This file disappeared from 19.10 dev package. Without the *.la file, libtool fails to configure libraries with GTK dependencies. My work around was to grab the file from 18.04 and change the metadata for the current library versions. That allowed me to successfully compile my package with GTK dependencies. Perhaps there is some libtool/autoconf magic that I do not understand here? Please do tell me how to address this this issue if I am misunderstanding the need for the *.la file. Thanks. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: libfreetype6-dev 2.9.1-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-40.32-generic 5.3.18 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-40-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Mar 6 10:18:10 2020 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-12 (725 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180114) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: freetype UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-12-31 (65 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/1866365/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
