Re: [ft] [ft-devel] ttfautohint now has a GUI

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Oh oh. Looks like the times of "easy building" of ttfautohint are
> gone :(
> 

> It now requires a huge Qt library. I don't mind the ability to have
> a GUI tool but to require Qt in order to build a simple commandline
> app is somewhat of an overkill, especially if one wants to deploy
> the tool on a GUI-less server. I'd greatly appreciate an ability to
> build without the Qt dependancy.

Will do.

> Also the build process seems to have added complication. I used to
> be able to build ttfautohint on Mac OS X as either a 32-bit Intel or
> a 64-bit Intel commandline app. Now calling:
> 
> $ ./configure --with-freetype-config=`pwd`/../out/bin/freetype-config
> --prefix=`pwd`/../out \
>             CFLAGS="-Os -arch i386"
> 
> no longer is sufficient because the Qt flags seem to insist on
> x86_64, and I don't yet know how to work around it.

This is something I have to ask on a Qt forum.

> But even if I decide to build x86_64, the new "bootstrap" stuff adds
> even more complication to the mix.  I downloaded the most recent
> libtool and installed it (bootstrap insisted on it), and now
> bootstrap pulls some "gnulib" stuff, which then seems to conflict
> with the headers that come pre-installed on my Mac OS X.  See below.

This shouldn't happen.  Probably a bug.  I'll report it to the gnulib
people.

Thanks for testing!


    Werner