[HarfBuzz] Compiling harfbuzz-ng under Mac OS 10.6

[suzuki toshiya]

Hi,

I'm quite sorry for giving wrong advise and could not solve
the problem. Now I think the reason of autogen failure is
because of the lack of pkg.m4 (autoconf macro in pkg-config).
If I copy pkg.m4 to harfbuzz-ng top directory and execute as:

glibtoolize --copy --force --automake && \
aclocal -I. && \
autoheader && \
automake --add-missing --gnu -Wall && \
autoconf -I.

configure is generated successfully and it can be executed
without error by undefined macro.

If I have not made a mistake in the installation of Apple's SDK,
SDK installs pkg-config's database files (xxx.pc) to
/usr/lib/pkgconfig & /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig, but does not
install pkg-config & pkg.m4. It's slightly confusing...

--

Behdad, could you comment about whether autogen.sh should
check the availability of pkg-config? I've never seen autogen.sh
doing such, but the situation "pkg.m4 exists but pkg-config is not"
won't be popular, so checking pkg-config won't cause troubles.

In addition, I have another question about current autogen.sh:
why ACLOCAL_FLAGS are set to empty always? Are there any troubles
if we use the value set by environment variable?

Regards,
mpsuzuki

Deron Kazmaier wrote:
> Thanks for the help. I've upgraded automake (1.11), autoconf (2.65), and
> gnu libtool (2.2.8) (which I presume renaming to glibtool/glibtoolize is
> correct on OS X...) and I still get the same errors. I verified that
> they are found from the shell, and autogen reports the proper versions
> now installed.
> 
> I presume also from the configure error that I will need to install
> glib. Is this a requirement of harfbuzz? I may have to hand create a
> makefile and write my own wedges to support the platforms I intend to
> use this on...
> 
> but first, to see if harfbuzz will even work for me. Any other
> suggestions for OS X? Thanks for the configure file, but since my
> installed versions don't match exactly, it won't execute.
> 
> Deron
> 
> On 1/8/11 11:14 AM, suzuki toshiya wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yet I've not checked in detail, but I could reproduce Deron's error
>> on Mac OS X 10.6, when I use autotools shipped by Apple. But when
>> I use autotools installed by myself, I could generate configure
>> successfully (see attached configure). I guess the autotools shipped
>> by Apple might be too old to generate configure for harfbuzz-ng,
>> so, could you try newer (especially autoconf) autotools?
>>
>> Apple: automake-1.10, autoconf-2.61, GNU libtool-2.2.4
>> mine: automake-1.10.1, autoconf-2.63, GNU libtool-2.2.7a
>>
>> Regards,
>> mpsuzuki
>>
>> Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
>>> Deron Kazmaier schreef op vr 07-01-2011 om 20:57 [-0700]:
>>>> configure.ac:32: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_PROG
>>>>        If this token and others are legitimate, please use
>>>> m4_pattern_allow.
>>>>        See the Autoconf documentation.
>>>> configure.ac:36: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SUBST
>>> You probably do not have autoconf, automake, pkg-config and the like
>>> installed on your system.
>>>
>>>     ― Wouter
>>>
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