Re: [Freetype] more on freetype-config

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On 29 Nov 2000, Sven Neumann wrote:

> 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. 

The Gimp folks got it wrong. :-)

For ImageMagick we took the concept but adapted it to produce
Autoconf-compatible output.  We have --cflags, --cppflags, --ldflags,
and --libs options which correspond with the meaning of
GNU-established standard environment variables.  These output the same
values as used to build ImageMagick itself.

It is not wise to mix the output of --cflags and --libs.

Bob
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