Re: libfreetype x86_64

  Hi Chris,

On 28/03/2011 17:07, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It sounds to me like your MacPorts installation is somewhat broken (Not having a working port command confirms this) and your libraries seem to be quite out of date. I suggest you wipe clean and try again.
>
> <http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html>

thanks for the suggestion

I cleaned and reinstalled macports 1.9.2 Which port should I use now to get libfreetype x86_64? gnuplot?

Thanks,
s.

> Just FYI, MacPorts has a Portfile for ROOT itself. I actually have a submission for the latest release. It works for me but someone else has problems, so hasn't made it in yet. Maybe you could give it a go.
>
> <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/27962>
>
> Chris
>
> On 26 Mar 2011, at 3:11pm, Simone Bifani wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I needed to recompile ROOT 5.28.00b with some patches from the trunk (configured as 'configure macosx64 --enable-roofit') on a machine running SnowLeopard 10.6.7 but upgraded long ago from Leopard
>>
>> As a result when running ROOT with no graphics (-b option) I get the following error
>>
>> dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _FT_Init_FreeType
>> Referenced from: /Applications/Work/ROOT/lib/libGraf.so
>> Expected in: flat namespace
>> dyld: Symbol not found: _FT_Init_FreeType
>> Referenced from: /Applications/Work/ROOT/lib/libGraf.so
>> Expected in: flat namespace
>>
>> Looking back at the compilation log I noticed the following warning
>>
>> ld: warning: in /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.dylib, missing required architecture x86_64 in file
>>
>> and indeed
>>
>> file libfreetype.dylib
>> libfreetype.dylib: symbolic link to libfreetype.6.3.12.dylib
>> file libfreetype.6.3.12.dylib
>> libfreetype.6.3.12.dylib: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
>> libfreetype.6.3.12.dylib (for architecture i386): Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386
>> libfreetype.6.3.12.dylib (for architecture ppc): Mach-O dynamically linked shared library ppc
>>
>>
>> An old post on the ROOT forum (http://root.cern.ch/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12140) suggests to reinstall MacPort which I did (1.9.2) but I was not able to fix the problem (somehow I do not have the 'port' command and I can't install the new libfreetype libraries)
>>
>> A second suggestion was to remove all libfreetype files
>> Is this safe (ie for other applications)?
>>
>> Has any of you experienced a similar issue and solved the problem?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> s.
>>
>>
>>