[HarfBuzz] cannot compile - please help

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 01/15/2012 02:00 PM, netstudio wrote:
> 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?

That's not true.  HarfBuzz doesn't have any Perl dependency, and there's no
reason why you need Perl threaded support to call out to hb-view.


behdad

> thanks,
> Yannis
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 00:47, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <http://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 <http://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 <http://configure.ac:52>: the top level
>     >>>> autoreconf: configure.ac <http://configure.ac>: tracing
>     >>>> configure.ac:52 <http://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 <http://configure.ac:52>: the top level
>     >>>> autoreconf: configure.ac <http://configure.ac>: not using Libtool
>     >>>> autoreconf: running: /usr/local/bin/autoconf --force
>     >>>> configure.ac:52 <http://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 <http://configure.ac:52>: the top level
>     >>>> configure.ac:32 <http://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 <http://configure.ac:56>: error: possibly undefined
>     macro: AC_CHECK_HEADERS
>     >>>> configure.ac:117 <http://configure.ac:117>: error: possibly undefined
>     macro: AC_MSG_CHECKING
>     >>>> configure.ac:120 <http://configure.ac:120>: error: possibly undefined
>     macro: AC_TRY_LINK
>     >>>> configure.ac:122 <http://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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