Re: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, et al.

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

Peter,

Keeping a suite of packages current and consistent is a moving target.
The latest updates for GARNOME are always found in CVS.

Let's see...

* pkg-config
currently at 0.20. Version 0.21 is available.

OK... I can update that one.


* cairo
currently at version 1.24 in both CVS-HEAD and CVS-216

* freetype
currently at 2.1.10. Version 2.2.1 is available
I looked at updating freetype a while back.  I will look at it once
again.


-Joseph

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On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 11:22 +0000, Peter wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:41:41 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> As a follow-up. IF I wanted to use the existing libraries, or upgrade the
> existing libraries in the system directories, which of the following two
> methods (or another) would work to keep granome from making its own:
> 
> 1) remove the dependency in the application's root Makefile by sed'ing the
> LIBDEPS = line. OR
> 2) rename the dependent directory to .pkgconfig, .cairo, etc. to keep it
> from building.
> 
> Only reason I persist, is for some reason garnome installs pkgconfig 0.20
> in its directories, whereas I have 0.21 on my system. Cairo is the same,
> freetype is lower, etc.
> 
> Don't mean to be OCD about this, but I enjoy trying to understand the
> reasoning behind your excellent design, but always seek to optimize and
> reduce redundancy whenever possible.
> 
> Thx
> 
> -- 
> Peter
> 
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