Re: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, et al.

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

GARNOME builds and runs on N different versions of P different distros.
Building these applications insures that GARNOME sees versions of
external packages that are consistent with and known to work with
GARNOME.

The question of which external apps to build rather than install from
the distro has no exact answer.  Not all external packages are available
from all distros.

There is a secondary consideration. Libtool files for external distro
packages often pull in other libtool files for external distro packages
which sometimes conflict with packages built within GARNOME.

It's a moving target.

-Joseph

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On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 14:24 +0000, Peter wrote:
> If these and other libraries and applications are on the host system with
> identical or even higher versions, why does garnome compile its versions
> of the same? Or is this automatic regardless of what's on the host?
> 
> TIA
> 
> -- 
> Peter
> 
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