Re: gnustep-back without freetype

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hoi Fred,

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> as far as I am aware the cairo backend won’t build without freetype. So most 
> likely you are building the xlib or the art backend. And if you do, you really 
> should state this. These backends are deprecated. If you get them to work on 
> your machine, fine. If you don’t, I won’t be able to help you. And nobody else 
> will, as long as you don’t write what is happening when you try to use this 
> specific setup:-(

yes absolutely, this is xlib, the most portable backend we have, very useful
I think it was my fault, after updating all our flags, it has become 
more sensitive. It actually picked up a too-old version of something.
I tried again from zero and without-freetype and it correctly skipped 
the test and everything built fine.

I was happily running Ink.app on GNUstep on Solaris and SPARC v9 (Netra 
T1 1U Server) :)
In case somebody wants to write Server applications and have a GNUstep 
gui to manage them... we are ready :)
Later on I also was able to compile and start GNUMail! I did not test it 
it much because it did not connect, but I will investigate. It was 
already nice to see it coming up.

Happens that I always use your app as a test...

Thanks,
Riccardo