Re: [Freetype] failed at the first hurdle

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Quentin Bennett reports build freetype problems on Sun Solaris.

I successfully built and installed freetype-2.0.8 on Sun Solaris 2.8
like this:

        ./configure && make all check install

Both gcc and cc are on my path; configure prefers gcc over other
compilers, but this can be overridden by

        env CC=cc ./configure && make all check install

I do installations by default into the /usr/local tree.

The two recipes above now work for the vast majority of GNUware, and a
lot of other software as well.

The above build got as far as the check target, then stopped because
that target is absent from the Makefile(s), but "make install" works
fine.  

Remark to the freetype developers:

        The GNU standards for Makefiles (see info node "(make)Standard
        Targets") require several standard targets, including check;
        if there isn't one, provide a dummy one like this:

        check:
                @echo There is no validation suite yet for this package

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