Re: No FTGL, says configure script?

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:35 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 22-Oct-2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
> | This is a little odd. I think it might be a bug in the configure  
> script?
> |
> | I see at the end,
> |
> |     configure: WARNING: "FTGL headers not found. Native renderer  
> will
> |     not have on-screen text"
> |
> | And further up, I see,
> |
> |     checking FTGL/ftgl.h usability... no
> |     checking FTGL/ftgl.h presence... no
> |     checking for FTGL/ftgl.h... no
> |     checking FTGL/FTGL.h usability... no
> |     checking FTGL/FTGL.h presence... no
> |     checking for FTGL/FTGL.h... no
> |     checking FTGL.h usability... no
> |     checking FTGL.h presence... no
> |     checking for FTGL.h... no
> |     checking for FTGL/FTGL.h... (cached) no
> |     checking for FTGL.h... (cached) no
> |     configure: WARNING: "FTGL headers not found. Native renderer  
> will
> |     not have on-screen text"
> |
> | (full output of configure as well as config.log attached).
> |
> | However,
> |
> |     address@hidden:~$ ll /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h
> |     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.2K 2008-06-16 09:38 /usr/include/FTGL/ 
> ftgl.h
> |
> | What's going on? Is this part of the reason why the native GL  
> graphics
> | of Octave don't have FreeType fonts, or a bug in configure.in? Or
> | something else?
>
> Please take a look at this thread:
>
>  
> http://www.nabble.com/Problems-with-FTGL-building-octave-3.1.51-to19046720.html#a19053823
>
> and see if it helps.  I don't consider it to be a bug in Octave's
> configure script.  I think it is something that shoudl be fixed in the
> way the freetype header files are written and installed.
>
> jwe

John,

Regarding FTGL, I noticed the Fink package finally builds for me :-)

However, I encountered the same error as Jordi. In the thread you  
pointed to you mentioned ...

        I have been using
          configure ... CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/freetype2

I assume the configure option refers to configuring Octave?

The freetype2 install on my Mac is rather convoluted, and it appears  
that Octave's configure is unable to find the dependencies it needs  
(even with the configure option). What files does the configure script  
look for?

Ben