Re: [Devel] freetype-config --version / pkg-config

[gjc]

Quoting David Turner <address@hidden>:

> Hello Gustavo,
> 
> Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> >   I think I would prefer that freetype installed a .pc file, so we could
> > stop using freetype-config once and for all and use 'pkg-config
> > --modversion freetype' instead.  Of course, the version in the .pc file
> > should be the package version, not the library one.  Who cares about the
> > library version anyway?...
> >
> I agree that a .pc file would be a good thing, and that it should reflect
> the library's release version number.
> 
> libtool versioning is a sort of black art that nobody uses properly anyway,
> but we need to support it in "freetype-config" for backwards compatibility
> 
> Now, would you care to contribute this .pc file to the project ?

  Sure, here it is.  You have to add freetype.pc to the AC_OUTPUT of
configure.in.  Beware, I haven't tested it.

freetype.pc.in
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