OS X El Capitan & freetype

Henry Jen henry.jen at oracle.com
Thu Oct 1 21:29:04 UTC 2015


My upgrade experience is easier, all I need to do is run.

xcode-select —install.

Cheers,
Henry



> On Oct 1, 2015, at 2:20 PM, Dan Smith <daniel.smith at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> The OS X El Capitan installer cleans out the /usr directory, including /usr/X11R6.  This is part of the System Integrity Protection feature [1], which also blocks future third-party installs from writing to that location.
> 
> Result: configure breaks when it can't find freetype, even after I've re-installed XQuartz.
> 
> The files can be found in /opt/X11; there's also a symbolic link from /usr/X11 (I'm not sure how that came to be, or why the config script doesn't try it).
> 
> Workaround:
> 
> sh configure --with-freetype-include=/opt/X11/include/freetype2 --with-freetype-lib=/opt/X11/lib
> 
> —Dan
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Integrity_Protection




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