Re: [Freetype] more on freetype-config

[Sven Neumann]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

> > The output of freetype-config is not safe when configuring complex
> > packages because it assumes that --libs should also produce -L
> > options (e.g. -L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype).  This is not safe
> > because it makes it difficult to control the ordering of the options
> > in the configure script (some linkers are amazingly sensitive).
> 
> > It would be better to add a --ldflags option to the script to
> > produce any -L options, and only produce -l options form --libs.
> > This is more compatible with the GNU standard environment variables.
> 
> Patches are welcome :-)

freetype-config follows the style of glib-config, gtk-config, gimp-config, 
gnome-config, xml-config and many, many more programs. It is a welcome
adaption to what has become a defacto standard for configuring programs
that depend on installed libraries. Please do _not_ change it's commandline
options. 


Salut, Sven