freetype fails to build on Panther

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 19, 2009, at 15:31, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 06:08:15AM -0700, Chris Janton said:
>
>> MacPorts 1.7 - Panther
>>
>> --->  Fetching freetype
>> --->  Attempting to fetch freetype-2.3.8.tar.bz2 from http:// 
>> download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/
>> --->  Attempting to fetch freetype-2.3.8.tar.bz2 from http:// 
>> downloads.sourceforge.net/freetype
>> --->  Attempting to fetch freetype-doc-2.3.8.tar.bz2 from http:// 
>> download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/
>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for freetype
>> --->  Extracting freetype
>> --->  Applying patches to freetype
>> --->  Configuring freetype
>> Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure:  
>> shell
>> command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync
>> .macports.org_release_ports_print_freetype/work/freetype-2.3.8" && ./
>> configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-old-mac-fonts " returned error 2
>> Command output: builds/toplevel.mk:43: *** FreeType's build system  
>> needs a
>> Make program which supports $(value).  Stop.
>
> 10.3's make wasn't gnumake right?  Maybe freetype needs a  
> 'build.type gnu'
> so freetype is told to use that instead?

I'll look into it in a moment. I filed a ticket here:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18107