freetype-config deprecated in favour of pkg-conf

[Roboron]

When compiling Simutrans Standard with scaling font support for my Arch package, it was unable to find freetype-config although I have Freetype2 installed. Searching for more info I found this bug report in Debian

The next release of libfreetype6-dev will *not* ship `freetype-config', as the script has now been deprecated in favour of `pkg-config'.

If this bug is not resolved prior to the release of FreeType 2.9.1, your package may FTBFS.

This is the case for me, since freetype2 is in version 2.10.1-1 in Arch Linux.

[prissi]

Great, why stick to something working, just because something newer is working too.
Just add to your config.default file the line
FREETYPE_CONFIG = pkg-config freetype2

[Ters]

This has been brought up earlier.

[Roboron]

Just add to your config.default file the line
FREETYPE_CONFIG = pkg-config freetype2

Thank you, this does the trick.

This has been brought up earlier.

A warning in the readme or a comment in the default config files provided would has been greatly appreciated.

[Matthew]

FREETYPE_CONFIG = pkg-config freetype2

Since Extended is also dependent on Freetype, do you think this is helpful advice for people compiling Extended on Linux too?

[Roboron]

Since Extended is also dependent on Freetype, do you think this is helpful advice for people compiling Extended on Linux too?

Are you sure it is? config file for Extended doesn't contain any references to Freetype, so I don't think Extended have (yet) merged those changes.

[Matthew]

Are you sure it is? config file for Extended doesn't contain any references to Freetype, so I don't think Extended have (yet) merged those changes.

You are probably right; I only checked that Freetype was in the dependencies.