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Hello Pavel, I have heard of this happening before on OSX, ./configure for open motif does not find the directory containing ftheader.h. I have made it work by moving everything in (/opt/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftheader.h) to (/opt/local/include/freetype/ftheader.h) - basically down one directory to it can be found in /opt/local/include - then rebuild with ./configure. I imagine "./configure --prefix=/opt/local/include/freetype2/" would work just as well, as long as it doesn't prevent other necessary files from inclusion. I have a different configuration for freetype on my OSX machine right now with ftheader installed by the SDK, I think, so not available in /opt/local to test this. You should be able to give me a quick reply back if this works. If not I find explore other solutions. Michael Unidata > I'm following instructions for GEMPAK installation for OSX and I've > encountered an error trying to make openmotif 2.3.3. > > /opt/local/include/ft2build.h:56:38: fatal error: > freetype/config/ftheader.h: No such file or directory > compilation terminated. > > I have already installed freetype. > > Regards, > Pavel > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: KFI-720183 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: Normal Status: Open