[GNC-dev] Various failures while building MacOS/Quartz from source

[Jim DeLaHunt]

On 2022-11-03 09:41, john wrote:
>
>
>> On Nov 3, 2022, at 1:56 AM, Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2022-11-01 12:58, John Ralls wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> On Oct 31, 2022, at 9:46 PM, Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am continuing my attempt to build GnuCash 4.11 from source  on 
>>>> macOS 12.6 (M1 CPU), following the instructions at 
>>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOS/Quartz ....
> [SNIP]
>> Run-time dependency freetype2 found: NO (tried pkgconfig, framework 
>> and cmake)
> [SNIP]
>>   Font callbacks (the more the merrier)
>>     FreeType         : NO
>
> Which is why it didn't install hb-ft.h, nor, presumably, build the 
> corresponding objects.
>
> [SNIP]
>
>> There is a file 'hb-ft.h' as part of harfbuzz 4.1.0[1].
>>
>> [1] <https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/4.1.0/src/>

...[snip]..

Thank you, John, I appreciate the help.

>
> So the question is now why didn't pkg-config find Freetype?
>
> Does /Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc exist? (It 
> should, the installation is right after your elision note.)

No. But a freetype2.pc exists at a different path, shown right after my 
elision note:

On 2022-11-03 01:56, Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
> -- Installing: 
> /Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/inst/_jhbuild/root-freetype-no-harfbuzz/Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/inst/include/freetype2/freetype 
>
> ...[elide dozens of "Installing:" messages]...
> -- Installing: 
> /Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/inst/_jhbuild/root-freetype-no-harfbuzz/Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/inst/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc 


When I tried rebuilding from scratch tonight, I encountered the same 
build failure of freetype, with the same symptoms as above. freetype2.pc 
does not exist at the path you gave:

% ls -lF /Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/lib/pkgconfig/*
zsh: no matches found: /Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/lib/pkgconfig/*

But that file does exist elsewhere on the path:

> If not, what is the result of `echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH`?
>
% echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
/Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/inst/lib/pkgconfig:/Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/inst/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig

% ls -lF /Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/inst/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc
-rw-r--r--  1 gtkdeveloper  staff  367 Nov  3 23:39 
/Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/inst/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc

> If so, does starting a shell (`jhbuild shell`) and running `pkg-config 
> --modversion freetype2` return a version string?

Yes.

% pkg-config --modversion freetype2
24.1.18

However:

% pkg-config freetype2
[null output]

% pkg-config --exists freetype2
[null output]

% pkg-config --print-errors --exists freetype2
Package libbrotlidec was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libbrotlidec.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'libbrotlidec', required by 'freetype2', not found

% pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config
/Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/inst/lib/pkgconfig:/Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/inst/share/pkgconfig

% pkg-config --variable pc_path freetype2
[null output]

% pkg-config --list-all | grep freetype
freetype2             FreeType 2 - A free, high-quality, and portable 
font engine.

So about 'libbrotlidec': the only mention I find of it is during the 
configuration of `gnutls`:

*** Checking out gnutls *** [46/76]
curl --continue-at - -L 
https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.7/gnutls-3.7.7.tar.xz -o 
/Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/src/pkgs/gnutls-3.7.7.tar.xz
   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time Time  Current
                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent Left  Speed
100 6202k  100 6202k    0     0   266k      0  0:00:23  0:00:23 
--:--:--  172k
xzcat -d "/Users/gtkdeveloper/gnucash/src/pkgs/gnutls-3.7.7.tar.xz" | 
tar xf -
*** Configuring gnutls *** [46/76]
...[snip]...
checking whether to include brotli compression support... yes
checking for libbrotlienc >= 1.0.0... no
checking for libbrotlidec >= 1.0.0... no
configure: WARNING: *** LIBBROTLI was not found. You will not be able to 
use BROTLI compression.
checking whether to include zstd compression support... yes
checking for libzstd >= 1.3.0... no
configure: WARNING: *** LIBZSTD was not found. You will not be able to 
use ZSTD compression.
...[snip]...

This doesn't mean anything to me yet, but maybe it is helpful for you.

Thanks again, John. I appreciate the help.

      —Jim DeLaHunt