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Bug 5043

Summary: All of --disable-sdlframework --disable-sdltest --disable-freetypetest will still compile showfont with -lSDL2 -lfreetype
Product: SDL_ttf Reporter: Ellie <etc0de>
Component: miscAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.0.15   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   

Description Ellie 2020-03-18 02:49:01 UTC 
All of --disable-sdlframework --disable-sdltest --disable-freetypetest will still compile "showfont" (whatever that is) when attempting to compile libSDL2_ttf, and it'll break if no SDL2 and/or freetype are found system-wide. I am struggling to get cross-compiling to work due to this, and I really don't need this showfont tool.

It would be very helpful for cross-compiling if this could be addressed with either an additional --really-dont-try-to-ever-link-sdl option, or a fix for --disable-sdltest --disable-freetypetest if they were meant to suppress this.
Comment 1 Ellie 2020-03-18 11:22:38 UTC 
For anyone who runs into this problem as well and needs a quick workaround, this worked for me:

sed -i 's/noinst_PROGRAMS =.*//g' "./Makefile.am"


(This disables compiling all the test and extra programs, kind of what I expected --disable-sdltest to do.)