Re: [ft-devel] FreeType patch (SYSROOT)

[Marc Kleine-Budde]

Hey Werner.

On 02/03/2013 09:14 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Some years ago you've contributed a FreeType patch to support $SYSROOT:
> 
>   
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=978b11dc59d3c00fececff3361d548f98fafb8aa
> 
> Right now I've discovered that this patch removes the use of the
> `$rpath' variable in the `--libs' option of freetype-config (it seems
> that I've missed this while writing the ChangeLog entry then).  Was
> this intentional?

I don't remember exactly. How did you stumble over this now? If you want
to add it back, it should be the path to without the SYSROOT.

> See
> 
>   http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2004-03/msg00010.html
> 
> which gives a reason for using `$rpath'.  However, this is apparently
> no longer needed since noone has complained about the change in
> freetype-config (which happened more than three years ago)...

That's almost 10 years old ;)

There's no need for manual rpath handling if you use autotools
(autoconf+automake and probably libtools) as your build system. Probably
with cmake, too. From my point of view it's best to use pkg-config and
get rid of the *-config scripts.

Marc

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