[HarfBuzz] cannot compile - please help

netstudio info at netstudio.gr
Sun Jan 15 11:00:47 PST 2012


I was told by my hosting company, that Harfbuzz requires perl threaded
support, something that as they say is icompatible with cPanel and Centos.
So, it's not possible to compile HarfBuzz on cPanel server. Is that true?
Is there any way to bypass that?

thanks,
Yannis


On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 00:47, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> For the record, Pango is no dependency to HarfBuzz.  Cairo is also
> optional.
> Fontconfig isn't used either.  FreeType is optional, but you really want to
> have it.  Glib is recommended though.
>
> behdad
>
> On 01/08/2012 12:51 AM, Alfabety wrote:
> > I had same problem. Recompiling and reinstalling all dependencies helped
> (freetype, fontconfig, pango and cairo as I remember)
> >
> > On 7 sty 2012, at 23:36, netstudio wrote:
> >
> >> The problem with my situation is that autogen.sh doesn't even create
> the configure script.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 19:09, Nicolas Rougier <Nicolas.Rougier at inria.fr>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I did not remove it from autogen.sh but from the generated configure
> script once autogen.sh has generated it.
> >>
> >> Nicolas
> >>
> >> On Jan 7, 2012, at 16:05 , netstudio wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks for your reply, but it's not the same error. And I don't know
> how to remove it from autogen.sh.
> >>>
> >>> I have downloaded and compiled GTK-DOC.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 16:24, Nicolas Rougier <
> Nicolas.Rougier at inria.fr> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I had the same probkem with the GTK_DOC_CHECK and I had to manually
> remove it from the configure script and restarting it (but not the
> autogen.sh)
> >>>
> >>> Nicolas
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 7, 2012, at 14:36 , netstudio wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello!
> >>>>
> >>>> I've spent a lot of hours trying to compile harfbuzz on my CentOS 5.7
> system with cPanel.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've installed a lot of packages that were missing, but I keep
> getting errors and I'm stuck. I don't know what the problem is.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here is what I get when I try autogen.sh:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> checking for ragel... /usr/bin/ragel
> >>>> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> >>>> checking for autoreconf... /usr/local/bin/autoreconf
> >>>> running autoreconf --force --install --verbose
> >>>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> >>>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> >>>>     LANGUAGE = (unset),
> >>>>     LC_ALL = (unset),
> >>>>     LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
> >>>>     LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
> >>>>     are supported and installed on your system.
> >>>> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> >>>> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> >>>> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> >>>> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force
> >>>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> >>>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> >>>>     LANGUAGE = (unset),
> >>>>     LC_ALL = (unset),
> >>>>     LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
> >>>>     LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
> >>>>     are supported and installed on your system.
> >>>> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> >>>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> >>>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> >>>>     LANGUAGE = (unset),
> >>>>     LC_ALL = (unset),
> >>>>     LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
> >>>>     LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
> >>>>     are supported and installed on your system.
> >>>> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> >>>> configure.ac:52: warning: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG is m4_require'd but
> not m4_defun'd
> >>>> /usr/local/share/aclocal/gtk-doc.m4:67: GTK_DOC_CHECK is expanded
> from...
> >>>> configure.ac:52: the top level
> >>>> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> >>>> configure.ac:52: warning: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG is m4_require'd but
> not m4_defun'd
> >>>> aclocal.m4:89: GTK_DOC_CHECK is expanded from...
> >>>> configure.ac:52: the top level
> >>>> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
> >>>> autoreconf: running: /usr/local/bin/autoconf --force
> >>>> configure.ac:52: warning: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG is m4_require'd but
> not m4_defun'd
> >>>> aclocal.m4:89: GTK_DOC_CHECK is expanded from...
> >>>> configure.ac:52: the top level
> >>>> configure.ac:32: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SUBST
> >>>>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> m4_pattern_allow.
> >>>>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> >>>> configure.ac:56: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADERS
> >>>> configure.ac:117: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_CHECKING
> >>>> configure.ac:120: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_TRY_LINK
> >>>> configure.ac:122: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_RESULT
> >>>> autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Could you please help me?
> >>>>
> >>>> thanks,
> >>>> Yannis
> >>>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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