Re: font stuff

Robert Swindells <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:04:40 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.x11
Message-ID <[email protected]>
matthew green <[email protected]> wrote:
> for at least freetype, the pkgsrc version also enables png,
> and brotli (though i have brotli ready to go for xsrc, i'm
> less happy to have to update png on branches etc. when the
> inevitable security issues come - png has been a lot better
> the last few years, so maybe we can...)

I got pkgsrc to use the native font libraries by commenting out the
brotli line in graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk. The setting of the
png option doesn't seem to affect it.

Why does freetype need to link to libpng anyway?