Re: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, et al.
"Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <[email protected]>
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GARNOME builds and runs on N different versions of P different distros. Building these applications insures that GARNOME sees versions of external packages that are consistent with and known to work with GARNOME. The question of which external apps to build rather than install from the distro has no exact answer. Not all external packages are available from all distros. There is a secondary consideration. Libtool files for external distro packages often pull in other libtool files for external distro packages which sometimes conflict with packages built within GARNOME. It's a moving target. -Joseph ===================================================================== On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 14:24 +0000, Peter wrote: > If these and other libraries and applications are on the host system with > identical or even higher versions, why does garnome compile its versions > of the same? Or is this automatic regardless of what's on the host? > > TIA > > -- > Peter > -- joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list