Re: [Bug-gnubg] Error in configure line 9576?

[Joern Thyssen]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:04:49PM +0100, Morten Wang wrote
> * Jim Segrave
> > This seems a peculiar fix.
> 
> After a closer look at the configure script I understand what was
> going on.  The output confused me since it goes as follows:
> 
> checking for freetype-config... /usr/bin/freetype-config
> checking for FreeType - version >= 6.1.0... no
> *** The FreeType test program failed to run.  If your system uses
> *** shared libraries and they are installed outside the normal
> *** system library path, make sure the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> *** (or whatever is appropiate for your system) is correctly set.
> 
> I now understand that it's the second part (that the test compile
> failed) that makes it report "no", and not freetype-config itself.
> It did confuse me quite a bit since the user never sees the compile
> error (which tells that #include <ft2build.h> fails).
> 
> I think the error message could've been better, but I also think it's
> a minor issue and probably not something many people will encounter
> anyway since the never RPMs should work perfectly, so please don't
> spend time on it. :)

We won't -- we didn't write that part :-) The configure script is
autogenerated using autoconf macros.

Jørn