Failed to build on debian

[mark-summerfield]

I get this error message:

./configure: line 6294: freetype-config: command not found

My system is: Tcl/Tk 9.0.2 (64-bit; locally installed); Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm); Linux 6.1.0-38-amd64 (x86_64).

I have libfreetype6 and libfreetype-dev installed. I don't believe that Debian has freetype-config any more (if it ever did have it). I have these files:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.a
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6.18.3
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc

Maybe Debian now uses pkg-config?

[PaulObermeier]

Checked on my virtual Linux machines used for BAWT testing:
Debian Jessie, Suse 42.3, Suse 15.6, Fedora 41 have freetype-config.
Debian 12, Debian 13, Ubuntu24 don't have it.
All systems have pkg-config freetype2.

So I suggest to replace freetype-config with pkg-config freetype2.

[mark-summerfield]

In configure.in I replaced all three occurrences of freetype-config with pkg-config freetype2 and then re-ran configure.
This produced a new error:
checking for Tk private include files... configure: error: Cannot find private header tkInt.h in /home/mark/Downloads/tk9.0.2
I then unpacked Tcl and Tk sources in Downloads and re-ran configure and ran make and make install as usual.
In tkcon:

Main console display active (Tcl9.0.2 / Tk9.0.2)
(tkpath) 49 % package require tkpath
0.4.2

So it works.

However, it only works if you make the change you suggested and unpack tkpath in the same directory as you unpack the Tcl and Tk sources.

Thanks for your help.

[apnadkarni]

Re-opening as a reminder to check if corresponding changes should be made in the repository.