Re: [Freetype] more on freetype-config

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > 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.
> 
> For ImageMagick we took the concept but adapted it to produce
> Autoconf-compatible output.  We have --cflags, --cppflags,
> --ldflags, and --libs options which correspond with the meaning of
> GNU-established standard environment variables.  These output the
> same values as used to build ImageMagick itself.
> 
> It is not wise to mix the output of --cflags and --libs.

You mean --ldflags and --libs, don't you?

What about adding --ldflags and --libs-only (or maybe a better name)
to freetype-config?  Then both worlds can be satisfied (at the cost of
the slightly non-standard `--libs-only' option name).

Again, patches welcome.


    Werner