Re: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, et al.
"Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <[email protected]>
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Peter, Keeping a suite of packages current and consistent is a moving target. The latest updates for GARNOME are always found in CVS. Let's see... * pkg-config currently at 0.20. Version 0.21 is available. OK... I can update that one. * cairo currently at version 1.24 in both CVS-HEAD and CVS-216 * freetype currently at 2.1.10. Version 2.2.1 is available I looked at updating freetype a while back. I will look at it once again. -Joseph ========================================================================= On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 11:22 +0000, Peter wrote: > 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 > > > > As a follow-up. IF I wanted to use the existing libraries, or upgrade the > existing libraries in the system directories, which of the following two > methods (or another) would work to keep granome from making its own: > > 1) remove the dependency in the application's root Makefile by sed'ing the > LIBDEPS = line. OR > 2) rename the dependent directory to .pkgconfig, .cairo, etc. to keep it > from building. > > Only reason I persist, is for some reason garnome installs pkgconfig 0.20 > in its directories, whereas I have 0.21 on my system. Cairo is the same, > freetype is lower, etc. > > Don't mean to be OCD about this, but I enjoy trying to understand the > reasoning behind your excellent design, but always seek to optimize and > reduce redundancy whenever possible. > > Thx > > -- > Peter > -- joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list