Re: [ft-devel] Question about default SVG library integration in FreeType build system

[Vincent Torri]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:23 PM Moazin Khatri <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> imho, just set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS accordingly so that header files
>> and libraries are found. These environment variables exist for such
>> purpose
>
>
> Thank you for your suggestion, Vincent.
>
> However, ultimately when we do decide on a default library, we'd wanna have 
> proper configuration for the SVG library in the build system. Isn't using 
> `CPPFLAGS' and `LDFLAGS' sort of a temporary solution?

no. It's for compilation. At runtime, the shared library will be found
as usual. There are a lot of libraries that do not ship a .pc file

Let's wait for the devs to share their opinion anyway

Vincent Torri