[Devel] Re: Why is it that Xfree86 ships libfreetype.so.7 and the latestFreetype release ships libfreetype.so.7

[David Turner]

Hello Miles,

Miles Lane a écrit :
> 
> When I compile some applications, I get warnings about possible
> conflicts between the Freetype and XFree86 versions of libfreetype.so.
>
I know, apparently the problem comes from the fact that XFree86 provides
its own version of FreeType in /usr/X11R6/lib (for use by Xft), while
some distributions also install it in /usr/lib

It's a packaging/distribution problem, there is little we can do except
urge distributors to respect the "/usr/lib" distribution default..

note that the default Unix Makefile installs in "/usr/lib/local",
as usual for Unix packages..


don't Unix configuration "flexibility" sucks sometimes :-)


Regards,

- David