[tlbuild] FreeType2 Issue on OpenBSD

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Tue May 13 09:45:06 CEST 2008


On 13 May 2008, at 1:35 am, Edd Barrett wrote:

> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 06:29:48PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>>     Looks like it is trying to build freetype2 despite
>>     --with-system-freetype2 ?
>>
>> I don't know the answer to the problem, but don't use
>> --with-system-freetype2 for the binaries we distribute with TL,  
>> please.
>> Or --with-system anything.  The whole point of those binaries to  
>> work on
>> as many user systems as possible, which means statically linking with
>> the libraries we have in the tree.
>>
>> (This means you'll want to do two kinds of builds -- one for TL  
>> and one
>> for OpenBSD.)
>
> Ah, yes, 2 different objectives. I am preparing for the OpenBSD  
> port :)
>
> Either way, the problem occurs using the version of freetype  
> distributed
> with TeXLive too :(

Could you tar up the configure.log and make.log files (from the Work  
directory created by Build) and put them somewhere we can take a  
look? I don't currently have an OpenBSD system set up for testing,  
but the logs may contain clues...

JK



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