[GRASS-user] Compiling the weekly source (configure bug?)

Seth Price wrote:

Hey all, I'm interested in making some changes to the GRASS
core so I'm trying to work with the latest source package.
However, I'm having a hard time getting it to install. It says
it's unable to locate my FreeType includes.

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Thoughts on the problem and/or how to get this configured?

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checking whether to use FreeType... yes
checking for location of FreeType includes...
checking for ft2build.h... no
configure: error: *** Unable to locate FreeType includes.

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$ freetype-config
Usage: freetype-config [OPTION]...

what does "freetype-config --cflags" say?

$ tail -n 20 config.log

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/usr/local/include/ft2build.h:56:38: error: freetype/config/ftheader.h: No such file or directory

does that file exist on your computer? where is it?

did you set
./configure --with-freetype \
   --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2

or similar to point where that directory is?

Hamish