fatal error: ft2build.h: No such file or directory when building OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with Singularity def file

[bdklahn]

That header and the pkg-config file are there.
/usr/include/freetype2/ft2build.h
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc

And pkg-config . . .

> pkg-config --version
1.7.3

I've tried to manually . . .
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib64/pkgconfig
. . . before the . . .
Rscript -e 'install.packages("shiny", repos="http://cran.r-project.org", dependencies = TRUE)'
. . . which must need ragg for something.

The rest of shiny (and the other R packages) install, except for units.

Below is the full message:

* installing *source* package 'ragg' ...
** package 'ragg' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
Using PKG_CFLAGS=
Using PKG_LIBS=-lfreetype -lpng16 -ltiff -lz -ljpeg -lbz2
-----------------------------[ ANTICONF ]-------------------------------
Configuration failed to find one of freetype2 libpng libtiff-4. Try installing:
 * deb: libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev libtiff5-dev libjpeg-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
 * rpm: freetype-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
 * csw: libfreetype_dev libpng16_dev libtiff_dev libjpeg_dev (Solaris)
If freetype2 libpng libtiff-4 is already installed, check that 'pkg-config' is in your
PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a freetype2 libpng libtiff-4.pc file. If pkg-config
is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...'
-------------------------- [ERROR MESSAGE] ---------------------------
<stdin>:1:10: fatal error: ft2build.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'ragg'
* removing '/usr/lib64/R/library/ragg'

[bdklahn]

I think I may have found the issue: It might actually be libtiff-4.

The code in the configure file makes it a little confusing, by combining the three libs together in the test to see if there are pc files.

ragg/configure

Line 10 in adf5f06

PKG_CONFIG_NAME="freetype2 libpng libtiff-4"

ragg/configure

Line 25 in adf5f06

pkg-config --exists ${PKG_CONFIG_NAME} >/dev/null 2>&1 && R_HAS_PKG_CONFIG=1;

Then, when the last of the cases (use pkg-conf) is never met, things never appear to be set up right for ANY of the libraries.

ragg/configure

Lines 42 to 55 in adf5f06

	elif [ $R_HAS_PKG_CONFIG ]; then
	echo "Found pkg-config cflags and libs!"
	PKG_CFLAGS=`pkg-config --cflags ${PKG_CONFIG_NAME}`
	PKG_LIBS=`pkg-config --libs ${PKG_CONFIG_NAME}`
	PKG_LIBS="$PKG_LIBS -ljpeg"
	# Test configuration
	printf "$PKG_TEST_HEADER" | ${CC} ${CPPFLAGS} ${PKG_CFLAGS} ${CFLAGS} -E -xc - >/dev/null 2>&1 || R_CONFIG_ERROR=1;
	# if the above errors try using --static
	if [ $R_CONFIG_ERROR ]; then
	PKG_LIBS=`pkg-config --libs --static ${PKG_CONFIG_NAME}`
	fi
	unset R_CONFIG_ERROR
	fi

(I never saw any of those echo statements in the output)

So it fails the test as soon as it hits the first library (freetype2), even though it is one of the two which is installed.

ragg/configure

Lines 61 to 62 in adf5f06

	# Test configuration
	printf "$PKG_TEST_HEADER" | ${CC} ${CPPFLAGS} ${PKG_CFLAGS} ${CFLAGS} -E -xc - >/dev/null 2>configure.log

I'm not even sure I can even install ragg on my system, since it looks like I might only have "libtiff5" available.
I guess I'll see what I get, when I install libtiff-devel.

Ah . . . I guess it should work:

Information for package libtiff-devel:
--------------------------------------
Repository     : openSUSE:Tumbleweed
Name           : libtiff-devel
Version        : 4.3.0-1.2
Arch           : x86_64
Vendor         : openSUSE
Installed Size : 157.2 KiB
Installed      : No
Status         : not installed
Source package : tiff-4.3.0-1.2.src
Summary        : Development Tools for Programs which will use the libtiff Library
Description    : 
    This package contains the header files and static libraries for
    developing programs which will manipulate TIFF format image files using
    the libtiff library.

[bdklahn]

Looks like this is resolved (I don't get that ERROR any more).

[GuohuaZhu]

Thank you for your detailed introduction. I also encountered the same error during the installation process. However, after reading your answer, I still don't know how to solve the problem. Can you provide your detailed solution code. Thank you so much!

[GuohuaZhu]

I don't know what I did, but when I reinstalled it worked. Sorry for disturbing。

[ramiromagno]

hey,

I also had the same problem on Ubuntu 20.04.

This solved it for me:

sudo apt install libtiff-dev

[lumtvn]

hey,

I also had the same problem on Ubuntu 20.04.

This solved it for me:

sudo apt install libtiff-dev

This worked for me. How did you reach this solution?

[ramiromagno]

Sorry I can't recall anymore...

[WorksAtAUni]

This test still fails improperly and provides distracting information.... if one is missing, all are blamed and it left to the installer to figure it out. It is all or nothing.

Also, Looks like you updated the code in the branch, but really something like this would be useful (based on code in this thread). Just a hacky sorta of example

R is frustrating enough.

PKG_CONFIG_NAME="freetype2 libpng libtiff-4 whatever" 
missing_libs=()
for lib in ${PKG_CONFIG_NAME}
do
   ! pkg-config --exists $lib  && missing_libs+=($lib) && R_HAS_PKG_CONFIG=1
done

echo ${missing_libs[@]}

# and then do something nice with $missing_libs since it only contains the missing libs.

[moefear85]

ft2build.h is a file located in the folder /usr/include/freetype2. If your IDE/compiler can't find it, then either you don't have freetype2 development files installed, or you haven't setup the include path for the IDE/compiler correctly, you would have to add /usr/include/freetype2 to it. To install the needed development files on ubuntu:
sudo apt install libfreetype-dev.

[stephenmjay]

For what it's worth, I had to run the command more than once before it took (I'm not going to try and explain)
sudo apt install libfreetype-dev