[mythtv-users] Freetype and building mythtv from source

[Nick Morrott]

On 19/06/2008, Matt Nelson <matt at frozenatom.com> wrote:
> I am trying to build mythtv:
>
> http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-21-fixes/mythtv
> mythtv-.21-fixes/
>
> and when I run "./configure" I get:
>
> WARNING! An unknown C++ compiler flag in: "-Wall". Option(s) will be
> ignored.
> WARNING! An unknown C++ compiler flag in: "-Wno-switch". Option(s) will be
> ignored.
> WARNING! An unknown C++ compiler flag in: "-Wpointer-arith". Option(s) will
> be ignored.
>  WARNING! An unknown C++ compiler flag in: "-Wredundant-decls". Option(s)
> will be ignored.
> WARNING! An unknown C++ compiler flag in: "-Wno-non-virtual-dtor". Option(s)
> will be ignored.
> WARNING! An unknown C++ compiler flag in: "-D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS".
> Option(s) will be ignored.
>  ERROR! You must have FreeType installed to compile MythTV.
> If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
> version from SVN.  If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
> mythtv-dev at mythtv.org mailing list or IRC #mythtv on irc.freenode.net
>  Include the log file "config.err" produced by configure as this will help
> solving the problem.
>
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this?  I know it has something to do with me
> running 64Bit distro's.  It does this on Fedora 9, Fedora 8, and Centos 5,
> all 64bit.  Also below is what I get when I run a "rpm -qa | grep freetype"
>
> freetype-2.3.5-4.fc8
> freetype-2.3.5-4.fc8
> freetype-devel-2.3.5-4.fc8

Have you tried the suggestion in the thread at
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/315947 ?

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Nick Morrott

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