Re: gEDA-user: freetype.h

[Daniel Nilsson <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:50:05PM +0000, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:46:23PM -0500, Daniel Nilsson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:13:27PM +0000, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> > > Hello
> > > 
> > > Freetype regularly generates problems:
> > > 
> > >  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"Gdk\" -DGDK_COMPILATION -I../.. -I../../gdk -I../../gdk -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGDK_PIXBUF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -fstrength-reduce -fschedule-insns -Wall -MT gdkasync.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/gdkasync.Tpo -c gdkasync.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/gdkasync.o
> > > In file included from ../../gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.h:35,
> > >                  from ../../gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.h:30,
> > >                  from gdkprivate-x11.h:36,
> > >                  from gdkx.h:78,
> > >                  from gdkasync.c:49:
> > > /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h:35:31: freetype/freetype.h: No such file or directory
> > > 
> > > If anyone has these problems, find the freetype.h and do export CFLAGS=
> > > "-Ithe_directory $CFLAGS" and the same with CXXFLAGS.
> > 
> > Do you have a correct PKG_CONFIG_PATH setup ? It looks like you have
> > installed freetype2 in a non-system location (/usr/local maybe ?) and
> > not pointed pkg-config to use this location.
> 
> I got PKG_CONFIG_PATH correct.
> 
> But friend's Fedora Core has it wrong (omitted from /etc/profile at all,
> although some distro-driven packages are installed in non-default prefix) :)
> (distros rulzz0r ;-P )

Not sure I follow you here... PKG_CONFIG_PATH is only used when you
have multiple location on your system where you have installed
libraries (like /usr for stuff from you distro and /usr/local for your
own compiles). Then you need to point pkg-config to which directory
containing .pc files to use in order to give the correct compiler and
linker flags. PKG_CONFIG_PATH shouldn't be set in /etc/profile ...

Look at the pkg-config man page for more info, try commands like

pkg-config --cflags freetype2 

to see what compiler flags pkg-config picks up for a specific library
(freetype2 in this case).

-- 
Daniel Nilsson