building X from source: freetype install issues

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 8/30/20 7:44 AM, mike young wrote:
> Attempting to build X on Debian Buster install. Downloaded and built freetype 
> from freetype.org before building X. When running build.sh, getting error:
> 
> ...
> 
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for FREETYPE... no
> checking for freetype-config... no
> configure: error: You must have freetype installed; see http://www.freetype.org/
> build.sh: "./autogen.sh" failed on lib/libXfont
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> Evidently building freetype is not sufficient for building X. Any hints as to 
> what I have neglected to do?

Did you install freetype under /usr/lib ?  If not, did you set PKG_CONFIG_PATH
to include the directory under which freetype2.pc was installed?

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