[Devel] Unix-friendly install scripts

[David Turner]

Hello,


  I just added two small scripts to the FreeType CVS
  (stable branch), these are called 'configure' and
  'install'

  As you might have guessed, their purpose is simply
  to make the installation of FreeType on Unix systems
  more friendly.. Which means that instead of:

     make setup unix CFG="<youroptions>"
     make
     make install


  all you need to do now:

     ./configure  <youroptions>
     make
     ./install


  Of course, the old way will still work though..
  I really wonder why I didn't have this idea before
  the 2.0.6 release !? 


  Also, we use "/usr/local" as the default installation
  path. However, since FreeType is installed on more and
  more distributions in "/usr", would it be wise to change
  this default to "/usr" too ??

  A simple way to do that would be to try to run
  "freetype-config --prefix" within the configure script
  to see if the library is already installed.. and use
  that path for installation..


  And should we try to fix the XFree86 mess in the install
  script (i.e. check for /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.so and
  see if it links to /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.X.Y.Z.so)


Any comments on this ??


Regards,

- David