configure error with freetype (again)

[Andreas Rieber]

Hi Alan, there is already a fix available in build repro. As a 
workaround i pulled the fix manually (just mailed that a few minutes ago).

hg pull -u -r 72ef61df77e5 http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build


On 29.10.2013 09:33, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> Lana sync'ed up jdk8/tl to jdk8-b113 yesterday and we seen to have 
> picked up a build change related to freetype.
>
> On Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit I'm now seeing this when running configure:
>
> :
> checking for FREETYPE... yes
> checking for freetype... yes (using pkg-config)
> checking if we can compile and link with freetype... no
> configure: Could not compile and link with freetype. This might be a 
> 32/64-bit mismatch.
> configure: Using FREETYPE_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/freetype2   and 
> FREETYPE_LIBS=-lfreetype
> configure: error: Can not continue without freetype. You might be able 
> to fix this by running 'sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev'.
> configure exiting with result code 1
>
> The suggestion is to install libfreetype6-dev but dpkg says it is 
> installed already:
>
> ii  libfreetype6-dev 2.4.8-1ubuntu2.1                        FreeType 
> 2 font engine, development files
>
> Are there additional packages that are now needed? (it would be nice 
> to not have to specify --with-freetype).
>
> -Alan.
>
>