Re: [ft-devel] Mac install instructions don't seem to exist

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I don't think I really want to install a different automake, I'm
> worried it might interfere with the one I already have.

Just say `./configure --prefix=/foo' while configuring automake, and
everything will be installed into this tree.  Doing this there can't
be any interferences.

> But this brings me back to the reason I started this thread. :) "Mac
> install instructions don't seem to exist".  It would be nice to have
> an INSTALL.MAC file explaining, well, basically a summary of this
> discussion. :)

Suzuki-San has promised something into this direction...

> I must say it's pretty strange that a project like freetype (which
> includes Mac-specific code) does not build with the development
> tools that come with the OS.

It does.

> Could autogen.sh be conditionalised to include Chirstian's hack?

No.  You are actually using a developer's version (the CVS), thus you
have to be prepared to use the latest tools in case .  On the other
hand, a `public' tarball comes with a generated configure script; in
that case you neither need automake nor autoconf at all.


    Werner