Re: [Freetype] more on freetype-config

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> 
> > 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).
> 
> The best thing IMHO is to use the --libtool option for configuring
> with the libtool package.  At least if you want shared lib support,
> you need that, and, AFAIK, it handles all these nasty details for
> static libs also.

Quite true.  Libtool is indeed being used by ImageMagick, but adding
-L options in the wrong order will still throw off linking against
libraries which are not built/installed using libtool.

Bob
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