Interfacing with FTGL on Fedora 11

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Thanks for the great tool. It produces nicer looking videos than
Codewswarm. I made this video from our CVS log:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s68Ood7-wRU

I had an issue with building Gource on FC 11. Gource requires FTGL 2.1.3 or
higher but FC 11 has only FTGL 2.1.2. So I build the latest FTGL
2.1.3~rc5-2 from source which puts everything under /usr/local by default.
However gource-0.24/configure wasn't able to find FTGL from /usr/local so I
copied all FTGL file from /usr/local to corresponding location under /usr.

I hope this message would be helpful for other users experiencing a similar
problem. 

Thank you Andrew Caudwell for Gource.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dallaky...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2010 at 8:07

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Thanks.

You might be able to build FTGL with ./configure --prefix=/usr, though that is 
only a
guess.

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2010 at 2:47

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i'm on CentOS 5.4, got same problem with FTGL 2.1.2
removed it and compiled 2.1.3~rc5
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftgl/files/FTGL%20Source/2.1.3%7Erc5/ftgl-2.1.3-
rc5.tar.gz/download

and it did install it into /usr/local/ but ./configure still unable to find it,
anyone got ideas?

Original comment by igal.al...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2010 at 6:40

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Did you try telling configure to install FTGL under /usr instead of /usr/local?

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2010 at 10:18

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yes with --prefix=/usr like you said.

Original comment by igal.al...@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2010 at 6:30

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 ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
fix the problem.
for CentOS 5.4 and i guess Fedora if 64bit system.

Original comment by igal.al...@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2010 at 5:06

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i just tried to compile this on Fedora with the same setting
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configure: error: ftgl 2.1.3 or greater is required. Please see README
[alkavan@alkavan Gource]$ yum list install ftgl
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
ftgl.i686                        2.1.3-0.2.rc5.fc12                      @fedora
ftgl.x86_64                      2.1.3-0.2.rc5.fc12                      @fedora
[alkavan@alkavan Gource]$ 

Original comment by igal.al...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2010 at 10:26

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You probably need to install the ftgl dev package.

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2010 at 4:50

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yes, how stupid of me :) well i can confirm it compiles on fedora 12 with the 
disro 
packages

Original comment by igal.al...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2010 at 7:45

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On centos 5.5 I was able to compile gource using ftgl 2.1.3 from atrpms and the 
rest from the standard distro.

Original comment by len...@gmail.com on 6 Aug 2010 at 1:28

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fwiw, gource is already available in fedora since f-12.

Original comment by siddhesh...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2010 at 9:54

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Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2011 at 9:13

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