Re: [Dvipng] dvipng-1.15 is broken with freetype-2.9.1

[Jan-Åke Larsson]

Hi,
Thanks for the report. I may not have time very soon to fix this but I 
will do what I can.

Jan-Åke


Den 2018-05-07 kl. 22:19, skrev Ulrich Mueller:
> dvipng's configure relies on freetype-config, which is no longer
> provided by the most recent freetype version.
>
>  From the CHANGES file of freetype-2.9.1:
>
>      - Use  of  the `freetype-config'  script  to  get compilation  and
>        linking  options   is  deprecated   since  it   doesn't  support
>        cross-compiling, among other  deficiencies.  Instead, you should
>        use the `pkg-config' interface.
>
>        The `configure'  script no longer installs  `freetype-config' by
>        default.  For  backwards compatibility,  a new  configure option
>        `--enable-freetype-config'   is  provided   that  reverts   this
>        decision.
>
> The patch included below should fix the problem.
>
> Of course, aclocal.m4 must also be regenerated. (Maybe it would be
> best to move the MAKEINFO* and AC_HAS_KPSE* macros to their own m4
> files.)
>
> --- dvipng-1.15-orig/configure.ac
> +++ dvipng-1.15/configure.ac
> @@ -78,7 +78,8 @@
>   AC_CHECK_HEADERS([libgen.h])
>   PSFONTS_O=""
>   AC_SUBST(PSFONTS_O)
> -AC_CHECK_FT2(,[CFLAGS="$FT2_CFLAGS $CFLAGS"
> +PKG_CHECK_MODULES([FT2], [freetype2 >= 6.1.0],
> +       [CFLAGS="$FT2_CFLAGS $CFLAGS"
>         LIBS="$FT2_LIBS $LIBS"
>         PSFONTS_O="sfd.o ft.o enc.o fontmap.o tfm.o"
>         AC_DEFINE(HAVE_FT2, 1, [Define to 1 if you have freetype2])
>
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