Re: Help wanted (preparing the candidate release)

[Werner LEMBERG]

>   There are however a few things that need to be done before this
>   can occur, and I would like to know if some of you could help.
> 
>    - the demonstration programs must be separated from the
>      main FreeType 2 source hierarchy.

Done.

>      Building them is a bit more complex than the core font engine,
>      because they may rely on external libraries (like X11, gettext
>      or wathever..) and they deserve their own build system.
> 
>      (I suggest a more classical approach, i.e. Autoconf/Automake
>       for Unix, and a simple set of Makefiles for other
>       platforms/compilers..)

What about retaining the current makefile stuff and just adding
autoconf/automake?

>    - the Unix-specific parts of the build system need to be
>      completed to have a correct "make install" and "make uninstall"
>      available.. This basically means updating a few files in
>      "freetype2/config/unix" (and it should be _really_ easy as
>      the only external dependency we have is on "mmap" !!)

All such dependencies are built automatically if automake is used.
I'll have a look into it in the next few days.


    Werner