FS#60427 - [libotf] build fails in configure - freetype not found

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Erich Eckner (deepthought) - Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 11:49 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Thursday, 04 June 2020, 01:18 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

extra-x86_64-build fails with:

checking for freetype-config... no
Freetype library wan't found in your system!
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

Additional info:
* package version(s)
libotf 0.9.16-1 (git revision f042e86963f14ccc4dedfb0496dc7cae0ca5ef28)
* config and/or log files etc.
full log is attached

Steps to reproduce:
> git checkout f042e86963f14ccc4dedfb0496dc7cae0ca5ef28
> cd libotf/repos/extra-x86_64
> extra-x86_64-build
   log.x86_64 (9.5 KiB)
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Closed by  freswa (frederik)
Thursday, 04 June 2020, 01:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  0.9.16-2
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 13:27 GMT
  • Field changed: Category (Packages: Extra → Upstream Bugs)
  • Field changed: Status (Unconfirmed → Assigned)
  • Task assigned to Felix Yan (felixonmars)
See also  FS#58447 

Please report an upstream bug, it's long past time they migrated from freetype-config to pkg-config.

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=m17n
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/m17n-list
Comment by Rémy Oudompheng (remyoudompheng) - Thursday, 10 January 2019, 21:34 GMT
It is now fixed upstream.
http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/m17n/m17n-lib.git/commit/?id=b468fc95150b7ca0e766e7c385a60879e65322d4
Comment by Erich Eckner (deepthought) - Monday, 29 April 2019, 12:44 GMT
this fix is for lib-m17n - how is that related to libotf?
Comment by Andreas Baumann (andreas_baumann) - Tuesday, 26 November 2019, 19:07 GMT
A less invasive patch is just to probe for whether we have pkgconf or freetype-config and act accordingly.
   libotf-0.9.16-pkgconf.patch (1.3 KiB)

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