Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:11:50 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Imagemagick doesn't know about freetype2 ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104091311120.72136-100000@mobile.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <3AD1DA69.41F7B257@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Ade Lovett wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 01:17:37AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > >
> > > subject pretty much says it all ... even though its a dependancy?
> >
> > This is a known problem. XFree86 4.mumble, in it's infinite wisdom,
> > includes freetype2 (it used to be worse - only bits of it), however,
> > the current incantation misses out the rather useful 'freetype-config'
> > script.
> >
> > Adding -I${X11BASE}/include/freetype2 to the CONFIGURE_ENV line in
> > the Makefile is one way around it.
> >
> > The other is to clean up the whole freetype2/XFree86-4 mess.
>
> Unfortunately jmz doesn't show any willingness to do a messcleaning, so
> 4.3 is likely to be shipped with this nasty bug. :-(
Okay, I might be missing something, but why is shipping freetype2 with
XFree86 a bad thing? Just cause it doesn't do the freetype-config script?
If so, can't it be added to the port itself?
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