Re: [Devel]freetype-config --libs

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi Werner,

What you write below (using freetype-config --libtool for getting the shared lib
link arguments) makes sense.  Wish I had thought of thought! :)

Anyway, I commited changes for this (freetype-config --libtool) earlier today.

Tom

On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> 
> > freetype-config --libs does not return a -R (or -rpath) option,
> > which is important if the freetype2 lib is not installed in
> > directory in the system's library search path (which, on Tru64 UNIX,
> > includes /usr/local/lib, unlike Solaris's run time linker).
> > 
> > Is there a way of hooking into libtool to get these values?
> 
> Shouldn't it be the other way round?
> 
> I suggest to add a `--libtool' option to freetype-config to help
> libtool find the library:
> 
> E.g.
> 
>   libtool --mode=link \
>     gcc -o test test.o `freetype-config --libtool`
> 
> --libtool would yield e.g. `/usr/local/lib/libfreetype.la'.
> 
> 
> IMHO shared library support should be supported only within the
> framework of libtool.
>