Hey Mike,It's been quite a while, years actually, since I built X from source but I'll help as much as I can. From the error, your right, you need freetype fonts. Unfortunately I don't have any quick fixes for you error. Sorry.
John On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 10:44 AM mike young <mike.yo...@nd.edu> wrote: > Attempting to build X on Debian Buster install. Downloaded and built > freetype from freetype.org before building X. When running build.sh, > getting error: > > ... > > checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes > checking for FREETYPE... no > checking for freetype-config... no > configure: error: You must have freetype installed; see > http://www.freetype.org/ > build.sh: "./autogen.sh" failed on lib/libXfont > > ... > > > Evidently building freetype is not sufficient for building X. Any hints > as to what I have neglected to do? > > Thanks... > > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s >
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