Re: libtool finds the wrong freetype?

[Lars Clausen]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Lars Clausen wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm trying to compile Dia on a (fairly old) RedHat machine, and I'm
> > running into a problem with libtool apparently not finding the right
> > libfreetype.  I have most of the required libraries installing in $HOME
> >    
>
> Make sure that this problem is not due to a non-libtool issue.  I
> believe that any 'pkg-config' support for FreeType is a relatively
> recent event.  The traditional approach is obtain configuration
> parameters from a 'freetype-config' script.  The 'freetype-config'
> script used will depend on the ordering of your PATH.
Yes it is (and much awaited!), but I did use the freetype-config, and 
checked that it was the right one.

> Also, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not a configure option.  You should be using
> LDFLAGS to tell configure where to search for libraries.
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH has to do with locating libraries at run-time rather
> than at link-time.
>  
That was it, thank you! I'll make sure to add it to the Dia docs.

Too bad this box is hosed Pango-wise and crashes any use of it;(

-Lars