Re: No FTGL, says configure script?

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Oct-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:

| On Thursday, October 23, 2008, at 09:56AM, "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> 
wrote:
| >On 23-Oct-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:
| >
| >| 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?
| >
| >Yes.
| >
| >| 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?
| >
| >Does the patch from Jason Riedy that I just checked in help?  With it,
| >you should not have to pass the special CPPFLAGS value to configure.
| >
| >jwe
| >
| 
| I still get the warning :-(
| 
| configure: WARNING: "FTGL library not found. Native renderer will not have 
on-screen text"
| configure: WARNING: 
| configure: WARNING: I didn't find the necessary libraries to compile native
| configure: WARNING: graphics. It isn't necessary to have native graphics
| configure: WARNING: but you will have to use gnuplot or you won't be able
| configure: WARNING: to use any of Octave's plotting commands
| configure: WARNING: 
| 
| As I mentioned my freetype install is rather messy, and I don't know exactly 
what Octave looks for. Below is what is in my include path.
| 
| $ ls -1 /sw/include/FTGL 
| FTBBox.h
| FTBitmapGlyph.h
| FTCharToGlyphIndexMap.h
| FTCharmap.h
| FTContour.h
| FTExtrdGlyph.h
| FTFace.h
| FTFont.h
| FTGL.h
| FTGLBitmapFont.h
| FTGLExtrdFont.h
| FTGLOutlineFont.h
| FTGLPixmapFont.h
| FTGLPolygonFont.h
| FTGLTextureFont.h
| FTGlyph.h
| FTGlyphContainer.h
| FTLibrary.h
| FTList.h
| FTOutlineGlyph.h
| FTPixmapGlyph.h
| FTPoint.h
| FTPolyGlyph.h
| FTSize.h
| FTTextureGlyph.h
| FTVector.h
| FTVectoriser.h
| 
| Thoughts?

Does config.log have any clues?

Beyond that, I don't think I can help, so perhaps someone else can.

jwe