Re: have headers & libs, but cannot configure/make

[Mike Miller]

I'm moving this to the maintainers list, please include it in future
replies instead of the help list.

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 11:43:01 -0800, Chris Roat wrote:
> I'm happy to help where I can. It's easy for me to test things, and suggest
> improvements.  I've use makefiles/autotools/configure in the past, so might
> be able to suggest things here and there.

If you are able to try to build from the current hg development branch,
the problems you encountered with PCRE and CXSPARSE should now be fixed,
no workarounds needed.

Nothing has been done yet about fontconfig/freetype or GLPK yet. Can you
please test with the default branch and see whether you still need
workarounds for those libraries (and whether any other problems have
arisen)?

I notice that, on my system, `pkg-config --libs fontconfig` yields
"-lfontconfig -lfreetype". So it may be that Octave is relying on that
implicit dependency, while in your case you need to add -lfreetype.

I also just spotted a possible typo, configure.ac refers to
FREETYPE_LIBS, which should probably be FT2_LIBS. Can you test whether
that helps your build?

-- 
mike