RE: [ft-devel] patch for makedepend failure when building FreeType

[Graham Asher]

I'm really not sure what to do about this - I'm sorry, but I haven't
investigated it enough yet. I think the *real* fix would be a fix to
makedepend, as you imply. I was hoping that somebody more expert than me
could think of the obvious right way to go.

No, I agree it is a bad idea to patch FreeType to support buggy tools. That
is why I offer this is a hack rather than a suggested change to FreeType.

Graham

-----Original Message-----
From: Werner LEMBERG [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 08 May 2007 22:04
To: address@hidden
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] patch for makedepend failure when building FreeType


> The makedepend tool fails with a divide-by-zero error because it
> apparently assigns the value 0 to macros; it does not actually work
> like a real C preprocessor.

Is it correct to say that you want us to add a fix to FreeType so that
the buggy makedepend program doesn't fail?  I don't basically object,
but...

What about newer versions of this program?  It should accept something
like

  -DFT_CHAR_BIT=8

I think.

David?  Shall I add this?


    Werner