[Bug 1866365] Re: Missing /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.la file

[Gwyneth Llewelyn]

Unfortunately, when trying to get ImageMagick 7 + php-imagick to work on
Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, one of the steps of the compilation requires
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.la.

I guess that for some arcane reason, ImageMagick 7 won't be supported
until (hopefully) groovy is out, but that doesn't mean that some of us
don't need it *now*. ImageMagick 7 was released in April 2016 — that's
well over four years now — has had 6688 commits to GitHub and 227
releases as of today, so it's definitely very robust and mature code,
and supported by almost every other distribution I'm aware of (including
macOS via Homebrew!), so I hardly understand why it has been absent from
Ubuntu for so long. Still, I guess that's the decision of someone else,
and the point is that we have no other option than to compile it from
sources — and that inevitably means dealing with things such as
libfreetype.la to be present in the system...

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Title:
  Missing /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.la file

Status in freetype package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  This file disappeared from 19.10 dev package.  Without the *.la file,
  libtool fails to configure libraries with GTK dependencies.

  My work around was to grab the file from 18.04 and change the metadata
  for the current library versions.  That allowed me to successfully
  compile my package with GTK dependencies.

  Perhaps there is some libtool/autoconf magic that I do not understand
  here?  Please do tell me how to address this this issue if I am
  misunderstanding the need for the *.la file.  Thanks.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
  Package: libfreetype6-dev 2.9.1-4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-40.32-generic 5.3.18
  Uname: Linux 5.3.0-40-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Mar  6 10:18:10 2020
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-12 (725 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180114)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: freetype
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-12-31 (65 days ago)

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