Working with common/autoconf/configure

[David Chase]

I'm working with a newly configured Linux box, trying the new build system, and I think I ran into some glitches (that I worked around).

The box (uname -a)

Linux bran 2.6.39-200.24.1.el6uek.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Jun 23 02:39:07 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Before doing much work, I had already installed

  314  yum install libX11-devel.x86_64
  315  yum install libX11.x86_64 xorg-x11-apps.x86_64 xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64

autoconfigure then suggested that I install the following

  328  yum install libXtst-devel
  329  yum install cups-devel
  331  yum install freetype2-devel   <----------- THIS FAILED!
  333  yum install freetype-devel.x86_64  <--- I tried this instead, it seemed to work
  334  yum install alsa-lib-devel

I then attempt to build, and it failed for lack of various include files

  345  yum install libXt-devel.x86_64   (for X11/Intrinsic.h)
  347  yum install libXrender-devel   (for X11/extensions/Xrender.h)

That seemed to get me through the build, though I have not yet tested the X11 parts.

David