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Re: [Freetype] more on freetype-config
From: |
Sven Neumann |
Subject: |
Re: [Freetype] more on freetype-config |
Date: |
29 Nov 2000 11:07:49 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 |
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
> > The output of freetype-config is not safe when configuring complex
> > packages because it assumes that --libs should also produce -L
> > options (e.g. -L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype). This is not safe
> > because it makes it difficult to control the ordering of the options
> > in the configure script (some linkers are amazingly sensitive).
>
> > It would be better to add a --ldflags option to the script to
> > produce any -L options, and only produce -l options form --libs.
> > This is more compatible with the GNU standard environment variables.
>
> Patches are welcome :-)
freetype-config follows the style of glib-config, gtk-config, gimp-config,
gnome-config, xml-config and many, many more programs. It is a welcome
adaption to what has become a defacto standard for configuring programs
that depend on installed libraries. Please do _not_ change it's commandline
options.
Salut, Sven