Re: new snapshot?

[Shai Ayal]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Jonathan Stickel <address@hidden> wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
>>
>> On  9-Feb-2009, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
>>
>> | On 2/6/09 address@hidden wrote:
>> | >      +. Graphics:
>> | >       + Refactor base_properties
>> | >       + Specific types for properties with improved property value
>> | >         checking
>> | >       + Implement the addprops function allow additional properties
>> | >         to objects
>> | >       + add the hggroup object that has no fixed properties for use
>> | >         by barseries, etc.
>> | >       + Add callback DeleteFcn/CreateFcn to objects
>> | >       + Allow listener functions to be added to objects
>> | >       + Clean separation of backend from property database
>> | >       + Implement experimental backend based on OpenGL and GUI
>> | >         toolkit
>> | | I have been interested for some time now to hack around with the new
>> | OpenGL backend.  However, the FTGL text dependency was not detected |
>> properly on my Mac (OS X 10.4.11).  After a recent mercurial update, | this
>> problem still exists:
>> | | 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:
>> | | I do have ftgl-2.1.2 installed via Macports.  Anyway, it would be nice
>> | if this could be resolved before the next snapshot.  I remember quite a |
>> long thread about this problem some time ago, but I don't remember what |
>> the conclusion was.  I am willing to help debug if someone can suggest |
>> something for me to try.
>>
>> It's unlikely to be resolved unless it's reported, and this is the
>> first I'ver heard of the problem in quite some time as I thought we
>> fixed it.
>>
>> You could start by showing the relevant part of config.log, so we
>> could see why the test fails.
>>
>> As I recall, I used to have to add
>>
>>  -I/usr/include/freetype2
>>
>> to CPPFLAGS on my system when running configure, but I think we fixed
>> that problem as it no longer seems to be required.
>>
>
> Here is what seems to be the FTGL test in config.log:
>
> configure:12370: checking FTGL/ftgl.h usability
> configure:12387: g++ -c -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include
> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include
> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include conftest.cpp >&5
> configure:12394: $? = 0
> configure:12408: result: yes
> configure:12412: checking FTGL/ftgl.h presence
> configure:12427: g++ -E  -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/freetype2
> -I/opt/local/include conftest.cpp
> configure:12434: $? = 0
> configure:12448: result: yes
> configure:12476: checking for FTGL/ftgl.h
> configure:12485: result: yes
> configure:12659: checking for FTGLTextureFont in -lftgl
> configure:12699: g++ -o conftest -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include
> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include  -I/opt/local/include
> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include -L/usr/local/lib
> -L/opt/local/lib -lmetis conftest.cpp -lhdf5 -lz -lm  -Wl,-framework
> -Wl,Carbon -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU -L/opt/local/lib -lfreetype -lz
> -Wl,-framework,CoreServices -Wl,-framework,ApplicationServices -lftgl >&5
> conftest.cpp: In function 'int main()':
> conftest.cpp:81: error: 'FTGLTextureFont' was not declared in this scope
> conftest.cpp:81: error: expected `;' before 'font'
> configure:12706: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h.  */
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
> | #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
> | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
> | #define OCTAVE_SOURCE 1
> | #define STDC_HEADERS 1
> | #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
> | #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
> | #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
> | #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
> | #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
> | #define __EXTENSIONS__ 1
> | #define _ALL_SOURCE 1
> | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
> | #define _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 1
> | #define _TANDEM_SOURCE 1
> | #define __EXTENSIONS__ 1
> | #define _ALL_SOURCE 1
> | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
> | #define _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 1
> | #define _TANDEM_SOURCE 1
> | #define __EXTENSIONS__ 1
> | #define _ALL_SOURCE 1
> | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
> | #define _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 1
> | #define _TANDEM_SOURCE 1
> | #define SEPCHAR ':'
> | #define SEPCHAR_STR ":"
> | #define __NO_MATH_INLINES 1
> | #define CXX_NEW_FRIEND_TEMPLATE_DECL 1
> | #define CXX_ISO_COMPLIANT_LIBRARY 1
> | #define HAVE_X_WINDOWS 1
> | #define HAVE_FRAMEWORK_CARBON 1
> | #define HAVE_LIBM 1
> | #define HAVE_QHULL 1
> | #define HAVE_PCRE_COMPILE 1
> | #define HAVE_PCRE 1
> | #define HAVE_REGEXEC 1
> | #define HAVE_REGEX 1
> | #define HAVE_ZLIB_H 1
> | #define HAVE_ZLIB 1
> | #define HAVE_HDF5_H 1
> | #define HAVE_HDF5 1
> | #define HAVE_H5GGET_NUM_OBJS 1
> | #define HAVE_GLPK_H 1
> | #define HAVE_GLPK 1
> | #define HAVE_CURL_CURL_H 1
> | #define HAVE_CURL 1
> | #define HAVE_MAGICK 1
> | #define HAVE_OPENGL_GL_H 1
> | #define HAVE_OPENGL_GLU_H 1
> | #define HAVE_OPENGL 1
> | #define HAVE_FTGL_FTGL_H 1
> | /* end confdefs.h.  */
> |
> | #ifdef HAVE_FTGL_FTGL_H
> | #ifdef HAVE_FTGL_UPPERCASE
> | #include <FTGL/FTGL.h>
> | #include <FTGL/FTGLTextureFont.h>
> | #else
> | #include <FTGL/ftgl.h>
> | #endif
> | #elif HAVE_FTGL_H
> | #ifdef HAVE_FTGL_UPPERCASE
> | #include <FTGL.h>
> | #include <FTGLTextureFont.h>
> | #else
> | #include <ftgl.h>
> | #endif
> | #endif
> | int
> | main ()
> | {
> |
> | FTGLTextureFont font("");
> |   ;
> |   return 0;
> | }
> configure:12731: result: no
>
>
It looks like you have HAVE_FTGL_FTGL_H but not HAVE_FTGL_UPPERCASE,
so only FTGL/ftgl.h gets included, and not any header with the
FTGLTextureFont.

can you please post the output of
grep FTGLTextureFont /usr/include/FTGL/*

(assuming the normal include sir is /usr/include)

Shai