On Wed, 06 Mar 2002, Raja R. Harinath wrote: > Hi, > > Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Lars Clausen wrote: >>> >> Earlier we used hand-built macros to check for Freetype, but since >>> >> we have to check the version, we now use the AC_CHECK_FT2 macro. >>> > >>> > AC_CHECK_FT2 is not part of Autoconf, so possibly this is a problem >>> > with your definition of this macro, not with Autoconf itself. >>> >>> I know it isn't, the problem is when freetype isn't installed, I still >>> need to be able to run the configure script. >> >> You should be able to run it just fine. AC_CHECK_FT2 should >> be expanded when you run 'autoconf'. It's only at autoconf >> time that AC_CHECK_FT2's definition needs to be around, >> and your users should never need to run autoconf. >> >> Or so it seems to me. I'm kind of new at this. > > Yes. However, it appears Lars may be building code out of CVS, and > the 'configure' script may not have been checked in.
Indeed, such is the case. > In this case, he can't help it, he has to install at least that part of > the freetype2 package that 'aclocal' would pick up,i.e. freetype2.m4. I > guess he can lobby the dia(?) package maintainer to add freetype2.m4 to a > package local m4macros/ directory. I am one of the dia developers, with cvs access. I hadn't considered using a local m4macros directory, that could solve my problem. What would happen if we have that and an installed freetype2.m4, and they are different? Not that I think it's likely to happen, though. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket?
