OS X El Capitan & freetype

[Philip Race]

On an Apple list it was noted that this 10.11 feature also partially 
breaks the
Xserver since files that it needs to place in /System/Fonts are no 
longer allowed.
I think a lot of people are going to find they need to disable this feature.

-phil.

On 10/1/15, 2:20 PM, Dan Smith 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