Configure(still?) broken on OS X

[Scott Palmer]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie <
magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 2016-01-14 15:59, Scott Palmer wrote:
>
>> I installed XQuartz, rebooted, and re-ran configure.  Got the exact same
>> error.  Seems the path to freetype in XQuartz is not fixed.
>>
>
> How did you install XQuartz?
>

I ran the installer package for XQuartz 2.7.8 that I grabbed from
http://www.xquartz.org


>
> Can you check that you indeed have freetype installed on the system, and
> let us know where it ended up. I think it might end up somewhere in /opt in
> newer releases.
>

I found this:

/opt/X11/include/freetype2
/opt/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
/opt/X11/lib/libfreetype.dylib



>
> Once you know where you installed freetype, the short-term workaround is
> to provide this path to configure using --with-freetype. The long-term is
> that we can add some additional "well known" paths to look at by default in
> configure to save some typing.


Thanks, looks like this does the trick:

./configure --with-freetype=/opt/X11

Regards,

Scott