Re: [ft-devel] No support for side-by-side installation of x86-64and i386

[Werner LEMBERG]

Happy new year to everyone!

> Here I attach revised patch.

Looks great.

> Now I think, the next step to improve multilib support would be
> modification of freetype2/configure, instead of
> freetype2/builds/unix/configure.  It's like gcc config-ml.in.  By
> executing configure in separated directories, we can collect
> ftconfig.h files for each configuration easily, and exactly.

This sounds like a nice idea.

> But, freetype2/configure has not been autoconfized, so I'm afraid I
> should not use macros in ft-uniconf.m4...?

Laziness.  The top-level configure script is so small
(currently) that a manually written version is sufficient.

> Werner, could you tell me about the restriction to modify that?

No restrictions.  Do whatever you think is appropriate.


    Werner