Re: GNUstep back: won't compile with art support

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Sascha Erni, .rb wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I can't compile the GNUstep backend with art support, successfully:
>
> ./configure --enable-graphics=art --with-name=art
>
> will work, no errors, but "make" produces a lot of:
>
> ftfont.m: In function `-[FTFontInfo 
> initWithFontName:matrix:screenFont:]':
> ftfont.m:721: error: structure has no member named `font'
>
> and a lot more "structure has no member named 'font'". libart is 
> installed, with devel packages. I run a CVS version of GNUstep, but 
> the same error appears with the latest "stable" back version (0.9.2). 
> Anybody got any idea where I can start searching for the problem, or 
> rather, a solution? I haven't given a shot at a full "stable" 
> re-install of GNUstep, but I remember that a few months back it still 
> compiled just fine.
>
> libart / libart_lgpl hasn't been updated on my system for a while, 
> now. At least I didn't do it incidentially. ;) I did install GNOME 
> 2.6, mind, which uses this library, too; but I wasn't notified GNOME 
> needed a newer version of libart. Version of libart_lgpl is 2.3.16, 
> according to the package management system it's the same version that 
> has been on my computer for months.
>
> Cheers,
> -Sascha.rb 

Seems that the problem is not relevant to libart/libart_lgpl, but to 
freetype2.

Check the following:

(1) Have you already installed freetype2 library including its headers 
in your system?
(2) Before runnning the configure script, has PATH been set in such a 
way that it
   includes a directory where freetype-config resides?  freetype-config 
is another
   shell script that is accompanied (and should have been installed) 
with the
   library.

If you find yourself in need of building freetype2 by yourself, make 
sure that
the build process is configured in such a way that the library's cache 
subsystem
is enabled. Otherwise, you will get some runtime errors.

freetype-2.1.4 works fine.  IIRC, the versions higher than that require 
a patch,
but I'm not sure.  Hopefully, someone would give a comment on that.

Regards,
- Kazunobu Kuriyama