php5-5.2.6 Configure error for fontconfig-2.6.0 with freetype-2.3.7

[reine.kurth@…]

sudo port install php5 +apache2 +mysql5 +postgresql83 +sqlite

on Mac OS 10.5.4
with apache2 and mysql5 already successfully installed from MacPorts.

During the installation of dependencies, namely fontconfig, the following error occurs:

checking for freetype-config... no
configure: error: You must have freetype installed; see http://www.freetype.org/

But freetype is installed and freetype-config is present in /opt/local/bin.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Can you please attach php's config.log?

[reine.kurth@…]

Replying to ryandesign@macports.org:

Can you please attach php's config.log?

Well I cannot find a config.log file for php itself (ran find config.log under /opt/local) but here is the fontconfig one.

And... my mystake, I had messed with the macports.conf file after another error I had encountered earlier. Seemed also to be a path problem so I had added the line

binpath				${prefix}/bin:${prefix}/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:${x11prefix}/bin

(default value taken from the MacPorts Guide - but apparently this variable does not exist anymore!) This had seemed to work but maybe it was just a coincidence? Anyway now that I have removed it fontconfig installed without error!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

You need to expand variables in the binpath. So you need to write "binpath /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11/bin", not "binpath ${prefix}/bin:${prefix}/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:${x11prefix}/bin".

Because you had not expanded the variables, /opt/local/bin, where freetype-config lives, was not in the path. That is why fontconfig could not find it.

Changing the binpath variable is not recommended. The best idea is to remove it from the macports.conf.

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