I did a bit more research and found the problem documented at the following web page:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=4151676
I had forgotten that story. So now this makes you 3 who had or have this problem. You are having also other mysterious problems with Fink. Or is the freetype problem the only one that is remaining for you now?
Following this approach, I tried to run the installation manually. The steps I took are outlined below: - ---
/sw/src/freetype219-2.1.9-1/freetype-2.1.9/builds/unix kevin$ sudo ./configure --prefix=/sw/lib/freetype219
/sw/src/freetype219-2.1.9-1/freetype-2.1.9 kevin$ sudo make
~ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ~ \ ~ $P /sw/lib/freetype219/include/freetype2/freetype/cache ; \ ~ done /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./builds/unix/ft2unix.h \ ~ /sw/lib/freetype219/include/ft2build.h /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./builds/unix/ftconfig.h \ ~ /sw/lib/freetype219/include/freetype2/freetype/config/ftconfig.h /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 ./builds/unix/freetype-config \ ~ /sw/lib/freetype219/bin/freetype-config /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./builds/unix/freetype2.m4 \ ~ /sw/lib/freetype219/share/aclocal/freetype2.m4 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./builds/unix/freetype2.pc \ ~ /sw/lib/freetype219/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc
- ---
It appears I installed the freetype bits somewhere, but I'm not sure if it's the right directory: Fink Commander does not show them as being installed.
FinkCommander, just as fink, apt-get, and dpkg, only know about files installed from Fink packages. They don't care about what you do manually.
I have two questions about this:
1. Is it possible to see above what I'm doing wrong? For instance, did I specify the correct prefix in configure?
The prefix is correct, and the pieces you are showing are installed at the same places where Fink installs them in the end, too, except for the aclocal stuff that the standard "make install" procedure doesn't install. You don't say if you got the library compiled.
2. It seems, based on the link above, that I'm not the only person who's experienced this problem installing freetype 2 from source. Should I file a bug report somewhere?
I am not sure if there is a better place.
The problem is that this does not seem to be reproducible except for you and your 2 unfortunate colleagues. I am still very much convinced that something in your basic Unix setup is not right, either one of the basic tools or a shell or an environment variable or something weird in a shell startup script.
As I explained in the mail thread you are referencing, the problem is that for some reason your make process does not compute a variable correctly that should stand for a certain directory. In your case this variable is empty. Why this is so is very hard to find out from the distance.
-- Martin
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