fontconfig and freetype

Munira Ahmed munira.ahmed at gmail.com
Wed Oct 26 02:24:57 PDT 2005


actually i am not installing. I am cross compiling

On 10/26/05, Richard Stellingwerff <remenic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/26/05, Munira Ahmed <munira.ahmed at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I installed freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz
> > from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/. isn't
> > everything in the same package?
> >
> >
> > On 10/26/05, Richard Stellingwerff <remenic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 10/26/05, Munira Ahmed <munira.ahmed at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > oh i forgot to mention i an using 2.1.4 and yet get this error
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 10/26/05, Munira Ahmed < munira.ahmed at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > > > What is the interdepdency of freetype and fontconfig?
> > > > >
> > > > > I am getting following errors
> > > > >
> > > > > fcfreetype.c:76:2: warning: #warning "No FT_Get_BDF_Property:
> Please
> > > > install freetype 2.1.4 or later"
> > > > > fcfreetype.c: In function `FcGetPixelSize':
> > > > > fcfreetype.c:971: error: structure has no member named `y_ppem'
> > > > > fcfreetype.c: In function `FcFontCapabilities':
> > > > > fcfreetype.c:2828: warning: implicit declaration of function
> > > > `FT_Load_Sfnt_Table'
> > > > > make[2]: *** [fcfreetype.lo] Error 1
> > > > > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > > > `/home/munira/motokit/fontconfig-2.3.91/src'
> > > > > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > > > > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > > > `/home/munira/motokit/fontconfig-2.3.91'
> > > > > make: *** [all] Error 2
> > > > >
> > > > > Can anybody please help me identify the prob
> > > > >
> > >
> > > Did you forget to install the -dev package (containing the headers) of
> > > freetype 2.1.4?
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Richard Stellingwerff.
>
> You probably installed it without specifying a prefix, which means
> everything has been installed in /usr/local. Fontconfig is still using
> the old freetype that's in /usr.
>
> when installing freetype from source (why?) make sure you use
> ./configure --prefix=/usr.
>
> Kind regards,
> Richard Stellingwerff.
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