Yosemite problems with FreeType

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2014-11-04 14:10, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2014-10-22 19:50, Dan Smith wrote:
>> Well, I take that back.  Tried installing 2.7.5 just in case, and now 
>> it works fine.
>>
>> Summary:
>> - Yosemite installer breaks XQuartz configuration (probably something 
>> trivial like removing a symbolic link)
>
> There does indeed seem to be a missing symbolic link. In previous 
> versions, I can find a symlink from libfreetype.6.dylib to 
> libfreetype.dylib in /usr/X11/lib. In Yosemite, this is missing. This 
> causes configure to fail.
>
> I tried some ways to work around this in configure by using freetype.6 
> as library name instead of freetype, but I kept running into one silly 
> problem after another and decided it didn't really seemed worth it.

In the end, I actually got it sorted out and I do now have a patch that 
I believe will work well. Webrev coming up shortly...

/Magnus