sorry, this happens on a FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE box, freetype and fontconfig give me
hell, rather i specify to use them or not, the build still fails with the errors.

Hi,

I am having similar problems - I have freetype 2.1.7 and fontconfig-2.2.2 already installed in /usr/
X11R6 - when I compile with the default configuration (on linux) I get
gcc -c -O2 -fno-strength-reduce  -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef   -I/usr/include/
freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2/config -I../../extras/fontconfig/src         -I../../extras/fontconfig 
-I../../exports/include/X11  -I../.. -I../../exports/include   -Dlinux -D__i386__ 
-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE 
-D_SVID_SOURCE  -D_GNU_SOURCE   -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -DXTHREADS  
-D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API    -DFC_DEFAULT_FONTS='""' -DHAVE_EXPAT -DXFREE86_FT2       
-DFONTCONFIG_PATH='"/etc/fonts"'  -DXVENDORNAME='"The X.Org Foundation"' 
-DXVENDORNAMESHORT='"X.Org"'    -fPIC fcatomic.c
In file included from ../../extras/fontconfig/src/fcint.h:39,
                 from fcatomic.c:50:
../../extras/fontconfig/fontconfig/fcfreetype.h:27:22: ft2build.h: No such file or directory
../../extras/fontconfig/fontconfig/fcfreetype.h:28:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
In file included from ../../extras/fontconfig/src/fcint.h:39,
                 from fcatomic.c:50:
../../extras/fontconfig/fontconfig/fcfreetype.h:31: parse error before "FcFreeTypeCharIndex"

It looks as though Xorg expects them to be installed in /usr and it doesn't bother to check freetype-
config to see where they really are.

Try adding lines like this to xc/config/cf/host.def to change where it looks
for preinstalled versions of FreeType & FontConfig:
#define Freetype2Dir /usr/X11R6
#define FontconfigDir /usr/X11R6

See the section for these in xc/config/cf/X11.tmpl if you need finer control
over where it looks for libs & headers than just looking in the lib & include
subdirs of the dirs listed.

I think I have part of the problem:

ft2build.h resides in /usr/X11R6/include, not /usr/X11R6/include/freetype2

I think adding this to FREETYPE2INCLUDES in X11.tmpl should fix this - will report back if it works.

Created attachment 210 [details] [review]
patch to X11.tmpl in order to build with freetype in /usr/X11R6

Hi,

attached is the patch I applied to get X11R6.70 to build on my system. I didn't
change the host.def. You may need to change Freetype2Dir to taste...
Other things I did was remove all old copies of libfreetype.a from my
/usr/X11R6/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts directories (these were causing
duplicate symbol errors when running X)
According to the RELNOTES there isn't any need to mess around with fontconfig
and it seems this is accurate as I have had no problems with it.

*** Bug 598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

You must either install the development packages of libfreetype
or set
#define HasFreetype2 NO
in config/cf/host.def.
With the latest CVS sources this is required if you have 2.1.7 as we 
now depend on a feature introduced in 2.1.8.