[Freetype] Trouble building freetype-2.1.4 on AIX with GNU-make-3.80

[Stephen Peterson]

Hi,
The GNU-make install seemed to go pretty smoothly.
I untarred the freetype distribution, creating the directory
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4

I then copied in the GNU-make command I had just built:
cp /bscdev/speter2/gd3/make-3.80/make gmake

Next I ran these two commands:

GNUMAKE=./gmake ./configure
./gmake

I saw alot of output, aborting with an error.  Here is the last
portion
of the make output including the error:

cc -Wl,-bM:SRE -o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/.libs/libfreetype.so.6 
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftsystem.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftdebug.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftinit.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftbase.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftglyph.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftmm.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftbdf.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/fttype1.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftxf86.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftpfr.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftstroker.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftwinfnt.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftbbox.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/autohint.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/bdf.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftcache.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/cff.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/type1cid.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/ftgzip.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/pcf.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/pfr.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/psaux.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/pshinter.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/psnames.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/raster.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/sfnt.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/smooth.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/truetype.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/type1.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/type42.o
/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/winfnt.o   -lc 
${wl}-berok -Wl,-bnoentry
-Wl,-bexport:/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/.libs/libfreetype.exp
ar -crlo .libs/libfreetype.a .libs/libfreetype.so.6
ar: No such file or directory
ar: 0707-113 The fopen system call failed on file
.libs/libfreetype.a.
gmake: ***
[/bscdev/speter2/gd3/freetype-2.1.4/objs/libfreetype.la] Error 1
$

I need this freetype package built in order to provide font
abilities within libgd-2.0.12.

I don't know very much about freetype.  I looked in the archives
of this list and did
not see anything relating to my problem.  Also the
docs/UPGRADE.UNX file
has a note to see docs/BUILD for troubleshooting, but this
document does not
appear to exist.

One last comment: I do not have root privilage on this box.  The
unix administrator
has dumped alot of open source software files onto this system
from various places
without much care regarding whether the builds were
correct/complete or where they
came from or how they were built.  Is there a way to build this
without being
fouled up from what freetype-related files may already be in
/usr/local?  I do
not see the 'freetype-config' command anywhere on this system.

thanks
Stephen Peterson

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