[FFmpeg-devel] ffmpeg-2.1 + freetype-2.5.1 build break + fix info

[David Favor]

David Favor wrote:
> David Favor wrote:
>> The break involves this line from configure...
>>
>>     enabled libfreetype && require_pkg_config freetype2 "ft2build.h 
>> freetype/freetype.h" FT_Init_FreeType
>>
>> What works is...
>>
>>     enabled libfreetype && require_pkg_config freetype2 "ft2build.h 
>> freetype/freetype.h" FT_Init_FreeType
>>
>> Looking at recent git activity on 'configure', no changes seem to have 
>> been made.
>>
>> Then I remembered, I updated freetype today... so I'm guessing 
>> freetype changed this file's location.
>>
>> Looking at Freetype, include files show up different places for 
>> different versions of Freetype...
>>
>>    OSX Mavericks + Freetype-2.5.1  -> /opt/local/include/freetype2
>>
>>    Ubuntu 13.10  + Freetype-2.4.12 -> /usr/include/freetype2/freetype
>>
>> So it appears Freetype has removed the 'freetype' subdirectory. Ugh...
>>
>> I'm unsure of the correct way to fix this.
>>
>> A temp fix is either hack configure to remove the 'freetype' 
>> subdirectory or...
>>
>>    cd /opt/local/include/freetype2 && mkdir freetype && cd freetype && 
>> ln -s ../freetype.h
>>
>> Please let me know the ticket opened for this problem + I'll open a 
>> MacPorts ticket
>> to reference the ffmpeg ticket, because likely this problem will crop 
>> up shortly in MacPorts.
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> Better temp fix...
> 
>     ln -sf /opt/local/include/freetype2 
> /opt/local/include/freetype2/freetype

Temp fix for build systems which must work on systems with old + new
Freetype directory hierarchies, without throwing any errors...

     my $free2inc  = "/opt/local/include/freetype2";
     my $fixfree2  = "[ ! -e $free2inc/freetype.h ] || ln -sf $free2inc $free2inc/freetype";
     system($fixfree2);

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