CODEWITHSUNDEEP
linux
Lobster
Lobster

Reputation: 635

Cannot configure sources

I got in trouble with installing app from source code. From console I started configure script, fixed some missing packages but when I got

configure: WARNING: freetype2 development libraries not present (Debian package is libfreetype6-dev)

I executed command

sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev

but I still got the same error. What wrong? I use Linux 15.04

Upvotes: 0

Views: 81

Answers (1)

user2371524
user2371524

Reputation:

A configure script is a strong indication that GNU autotools are used. In that case, you will find what went wrong in the (huge) config.log file. Look near the end (several pages up from it because the end is cluttered with not so helpful general output about this run of the script).

The autotools are complicated (some would say, a mess) and it's easy to get something subtlety wrong, so my guess would be the check for freetype2 somehow fails to detect it the way the package installed on your system. If you find the source of the problem, you could hack the configure script (attention: huge again, it's auto-generated) to make it work. Sometimes it's enough to pass configure some CFLAGS making the compiler look for include files in the correct locations (e.g. CFLAGS='-I/usr/include/freetype2' ./configure -- don't take this verbatim, analyze config.log and compare with dpkg -L libfreetype6-dev)

Upvotes: 0

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