configure: error: *** Unable to locate FreeType includes.

[strk]

Configuration of grass-7.0.0beta3 sources fail with:

checking whether to use FreeType... yes
checking for location of FreeType includes... 
checking for ft2build.h... no
configure: error: *** Unable to locate FreeType includes.

I have the file in /usr/include/freetype2/ft2build.h

Adding --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 switch fixes the configuration, but I'm wondering if the detector could do a better job by also looking in there, being the default install on ubuntu 14.04

NOTE: 7.0.0beta3 is missing a Version (would it be trunk?)

[glynn]

As a matter of policy, configure doesn't add directories to the header or library search paths automatically. It only adds directories which are either specified by the user or obtained from pkg-config or package-specific config scripts (e.g. gdal-config).

[strk]

$ freetype-config --cflags -I/usr/include/freetype2

Is that acceptable by policy then ?

[strk]

That is (with proper trac syntax):

[strk@cdb:~] freetype-config --cflags
-I/usr/include/freetype2

[neteler]

Replying to strk:

Adding --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 switch fixes the configuration

FWIW, the same is needed on Fedora 20.

[glynn]

Replying to strk:

$ freetype-config --cflags -I/usr/include/freetype2

Is that acceptable by policy then ?

Yes. But the configure script doesn't currently use freetype-config.

Before making that change, we should decide whether to use freetype-config or pkg-config.

Also, we don't currently have a macro for *-config scripts; each package which uses them has the same boilerplate.

[martinl]

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