| ID: | 5979 |
| From: | rn...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Mon, 6 Mar 2023 08:05:42 +0100 (CET) |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] Issue finding freetype when it is in non-standard |
| in-reply-to: | 5976 from Henner Zeller <h....@acm.org> |
Hello Henner, On Sun, 5 Mar 2023, Henner Zeller wrote: >Hi, > >When configuring pcb-rnd, the configure script does not find the >freetype library >... > import ttf glyphs no [import_ttf] >... > >This is what I used to configure >./configure $(cat doc/developer/packaging/auto/Configure.args) >--prefix=`pwd`/testroot > >Looking scconfig/config.log log (attached gzipped), it looks like it >looks at the 'usual' places, such as /usr/include ... but that >assumption does not hold on nixos. > >There, more 'meta' methods to find packages are advised. Using >pkg-config, it will find the necessary library; and this is how it >looks like ... you can tell that this is not necessarily a >super-guessable place :) > >$ pkg-config --cflags --libs freetype2 >-I/nix/store/ybd7brnb5kavanvz40mg2p5pmgnczi85-freetype-2.12.1-dev/include/freetype2 >-L/nix/store/2jq0rdhc7wb8fj0q82whsj9p50sdmvcv-freetype-2.12.1/lib >-lfreetype > >So I suggest to use pkg-config as fallback to find freetype. (meanwhile we had a discussion on IRC, and this mail is only to inform the rest of the mailing list about the conclusions.) I think this can affect any dependency on that distro, which means we would need to have a pkg-config fallback for pretty much every external lib dep to make this work reliably. And I really dislike that idea. So I think on distros that use such highly-non-standard installation paths, the way to go is using a longer ./configure line that specify the -L and -I flags (which in turn you can obtain with pkg-config). Best regards, Igor2
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