Re: No FTGL, says configure script?

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Oct-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:

| Regarding FTGL, I noticed the Fink package finally builds for me :-)
| 
| However, I encountered the same error as Jordi. In the thread you  
| pointed to you mentioned ...
| 
|       I have been using
|         configure ... CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/freetype2
| 
| I assume the configure option refers to configuring Octave?

Yes.

| The freetype2 install on my Mac is rather convoluted, and it appears  
| that Octave's configure is unable to find the dependencies it needs  
| (even with the configure option). What files does the configure script  
| look for?

Does the patch from Jason Riedy that I just checked in help?  With it,
you should not have to pass the special CPPFLAGS value to configure.

jwe