Re: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, et al.
"Peter" <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:41:41 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: > 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 > Thanks for the explanation. That's kind of what I figured. So, basically, garnome would have to be tested against each distro-supplied library on a case by case basis. Then, I suppose, it's a matter of sed'ing the Makefiles to remove dependencies on the LIBDEPS line to particular libraries from being built redundantly. I suppose such a scheme could be optimized for one particular distro and version but then, once a version gets bumped somewhere, then it all starts over again! -- Peter -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list