Re: Contribution to the optimization toolbox

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Michael Creel<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:28 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On  7-Sep-2009, Michael Creel wrote:
>>
>> | I'm trying to
>> | compile a checkout of the development version to see if I can
>> | replicate your results, but it crashes with
>> | In file included from ./txt-eng-ft.h:28,
>> |                  from ./gl-render.h:43,
>> |                  from ./DLD-FUNCTIONS/fltk_backend.cc:60:
>> | /usr/include/ft2build.h:56:38: error: freetype/config/ftheader.h: No
>> | such file or directory
>>
>> I'd say fix this problem first.  Why is freetype/config/ftheader.h
>> missing?  Note that Octave is not including this file directly, it is
>> included from /usr/include/ft2build.h, so I think there is some
>> problem with your installation of FreeType.  Look at the
>> /usr/include/ft2build.h file to see if there are some clues there.
>>
>> jwe
>>
>
> Hmm, the fltk stuff is pretty new for me. I'm running Kubuntu 9.04,
> and freetype, etc., come from the provided packages. My first problem
> is that I don't have a clear idea of what libraries (or more usefully
> for me, Debian package names) are required.  Perhaps I'm missing a
> needed package. I can compile 3.2.x release candidates without
> problems, including with the fltk backend. There doesn't seem to be a
> switch to disable compilation of the fltk backend in the development
> version. Is there some way to do that?
> Michael
>
>

First, make sure you have all the -devel packages installed; there is
sometimes a missing dependency between those.
Can you locate the header <somepath>/freetype/config/ftheader.h? If
yes, just add -I<somepath> to CXXFLAGS.

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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