Example of failing snapcraft build of fontconfig and freetype

snapcraft.yml

name: fontconfig-fail
version: '0.1'
summary: Example failure of freetype and fontconfig
description: |
  An example showing that compiling freetype and fontconfig will fail when
  the compile tries to build fontconfig.

grade: devel
confinement: devmode

parts:
  freetype:
    source: https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.6.5.tar.gz
    plugin: autotools
    configflags: ['--prefix=/usr', '--with-harfbuzz=no']
    build-packages: [libbz2-dev, libexpat1-dev, libpng12-dev, pkg-config, zlib1g]
    stage-packages: [libbz2-1.0, libexpat1, libpng12-0, zlib1g]
  fontconfig:
    source: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.12.1.tar.bz2
    plugin: autotools
    configflags: ['--prefix=/usr']
    build-packages: [pkg-config]
    after: [freetype]

Hi Daniel, do you know if freetype use with snap has been fixed now ?

This is a very old gist. It was posted in a request on the forum, but didn't receive any replies. This particular gist still fails as-is, but it is fixable by rewriting the pkgconfig .pc file in the freetype build-step:

parts:
    freetype:
        ...
        override-build: |
            snapcraftctl build
            sed -i "s|=/usr|=$SNAPCRAFT_STAGE/usr|g" $SNAPCRAFT_PART_INSTALL/usr/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc