Re: How to get pkgsrc to use builtin/native libraries?

On Fri, 24 Apr 2026, Monica Vaida wrote:

>> Did you install all the X11 sets during install?
>
> Yes.
>

Well, I built CDE on both 10.1_STABLE/amd64 and 11.0_RC3/i386 and it built
fine using only the system freetype/fontconfig (and, no cmake/python deps.).
Testing on 11.0_RC3/i386, CDE ran just fine too--but with the std. X11 bitmap
fonts (I don't know anything about CDE, so I don't know how to customize it
to use TTF fonts...) in the UI.

Don't know why it's not working on the VAX (never even *seen* a VAX IRL!).
Might fire up SIMH to investigate--if I have the time.

>> Ask on pkgsrc-users@ for fine tuning all this...
>
> I will go do that now, hopefully it is ok to post on both lists.
>

I'm not on any of the pkgsrc MLs so that would be useful.

> If you have any more ideas pleasw reply!
>

You can try the patch below. Since the system freetype *is* built with brotli
(for compressed WOFF2 files), this less disruptive patch should work. I haven't
built CDE again with this, but `make show-var VARNAME=USE_BUILTIN.freetype'
says `yes'.

```
diff -urN pkgsrc.orig/graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk pkgsrc/graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk
--- pkgsrc.orig/graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk	2024-08-18 19:54:53.000000000 +0000
+++ pkgsrc/graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk	2026-04-24 22:52:21.983264419 +0000
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
  .if !defined(FREETYPE2_BUILDLINK3_MK)
  FREETYPE2_BUILDLINK3_MK:=

-BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.freetype2+=	freetype2>=2.13.0
-BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.freetype2+=	freetype2>=2.13.2nb1
+BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.freetype2+=	freetype2>=2.10.0
+BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.freetype2+=	freetype2>=2.10.2nb1
  BUILDLINK_PKGSRCDIR.freetype2?=		../../graphics/freetype2
  BUILDLINK_INCDIRS.freetype2?=		include/freetype2

@@ -21,10 +21,6 @@
  pkgbase := freetype2
  .include "../../mk/pkg-build-options.mk"

-.if ${PKG_BUILD_OPTIONS.freetype2:Mbrotli}
-.include "../../archivers/brotli/buildlink3.mk"
-.endif
-
  .if ${PKG_BUILD_OPTIONS.freetype2:Mpng}
  CHECK_BUILTIN.freetype2:=	yes
  .include "../../graphics/freetype2/builtin.mk"
@@ -35,6 +31,12 @@
  .  endif
  .endif

+.if ${PKG_BUILD_OPTIONS.freetype2:Mbrotli}
+.  if ${USE_BUILTIN.freetype2:tl} != yes
+.    include "../../archivers/brotli/buildlink3.mk"
+.  endif
+.endif
+
  .endif # FREETYPE2_BUILDLINK3_MK

  BUILDLINK_TREE+=	-freetype2
```

-RVP