Re: [ft-devel] [patch] fix for building freetype-native on a symlinked build environment

[Werner LEMBERG]

> in the seemingly hand written configure script there is a directory
> names comparison where some extra actions are needed in case the
> directory is not the base dir of freetype build.  in my setup the
> names were different for some reasons in the embedding tools (not
> caring whats the exact origin). in fact both were the very same dir
> object.  this lead to execution of parts of the script that were not
> intended so that this mis-detection finally stopped the build.
> 
> the attached patch fixes that problem by changing the comparison
> code so that it uses the inode numbers of the relevant paths for the
> comparison.

Thanks.  Could you slightly rewrite the patch, replacing `cut' (which
is, AFAIK, not in the suite of standard autoconf tools) with `sed'?


    Werner