On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:26:49PM -0400, Ambrose Li wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 05:29:08PM -0500, Keith Packard wrote: > > > > I switched the configuration from autoconf to automake and didn't bother > > to bring that app forwards. I prefer 'pkg-config', but if you think > > fontconfig-config is necessary, please feel free to submit a working > > version to the bugzilla... > > It seems that fontconfig-config can be created quite trivially as a > wrapper of pkg-config; patch to make a working fontconfig-config > follows (patch is against the fontconfig-config as shipped with > XFree86 4.3.0). > The problem with this solution (fontconfig-config as a warper of pkg-config) is that: 1 - You need pkg-config and so the compilation of a package which can use fontconfig needs pkg-config: you add a dependence. 2 - If fontconfig is installed at a no standard place (vs pkg-config) you should set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH env variable. In the other hand if you have installed fontconfig in a no standard place you must have set your PATH accordingly and fontconfig-config is found. By the way, I prefer fontconfig-config than 'pkg-config'. For me 'pkg-config' add only complication for low level library. Regards, Olivier
