Re: [Freetype] FreeType 2.0 SNAFU

[Werner LEMBERG]

> At the very last moment (since the last beta), the installation
> directory for the FreeType headers was changed to default to
> "/usr/local/include/freetype2".

Without that, FreeType 1 and FreeType 2 can't be installed
simultaneously.

> By itself this is not a problem (typically headers are installed
> where the compiler will find them), but unfortunately, the FreeType
> headers are included like <freetype/fterrors.h> so the only way to
> make the inclusion work is by adding -I/usr/local/include/freetype2
> to CPPFLAGS.  There are no existing Autoconf tests which are capable
> of finding headers installed in this fashion.  The only solution
> seems to be to require the user to tell configure at which random
> place they have chosen to install the headers so that CPPFLAGS can
> be extended to include that location.  It it quite likely that the
> typical user won't know the answer to this question.

freetype-config should do the work for you.  It's not documented yet,
unfortunately.


    Werner