jdk9 configure problem

Erik Joelsson erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Wed Nov 4 20:24:04 UTC 2015


I would suggest you try doing exactly what the error message suggests as 
that will most likely work fine.

/Erik

On 2015-11-04 21:03, Naveen Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>      I am getting the following error (below) while running configure 
> on jdk9 (openjdk) on cygwin on windows7.
> Should I download freetype & build it with VS(2013)?
> If yes, then what are special build instructions.
> If no then how to fix this.
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> *$sh configure --enable-debug**
> *...
> ...
> checking for FREETYPE... yes
> configure: Found freetype using pkg-config, but ignoring since we can 
> not bundle that
> configure: error: Could not find freetype!
> The freetype library can now be build during the configure process.
> Download the freetype sources and unpack them into an arbitrary 
> directory:
>
> wget 
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.5.3.tar.gz
> tar -xzf freetype-2.5.3.tar.gz
>
> Then run configure with '--with-freetype-src=<freetype_src>'. This will
> automatically build the freetype library into '<freetype_src>/lib64' 
> for 64-bit
> builds or into '<freetype_src>/lib32' for 32-bit builds.
> Afterwards you can always use 
> '--with-freetype-include=<freetype_src>/include'
> and '--with-freetype-lib=<freetype_src>/lib32|64' for other builds.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>
> Please help.
>
> regards
> Naveen



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