On 03/07/08 13:17, Joerg Pulz wrote: > Content-ID: <20080307114057.C44873@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > >> On 03/06/08 20:37, Ville Skyttä wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> The attached patch makes VDR's Makefile use pkgconfig for finding >>> libs and >>> include dirs of freetype and fontconfig instead of making assumptions. > >> How about putting that stuff at the same place everywhere? >> Why must it have to be somewhere else on every system? > > Klaus, > > how about accepting the case, that the world has more than one Linux > distribution and in addition, there is not only Linux where VDR can run on. > How about beeing a little bit less ignorant when it comes to VDR and > portability. > What do you think why we have tools like pkg-config or autotools and so > many projects make use of it? Because its funny? I don't think so! > > What's the big deal with Villa's proposal to change two lines in the > Makefile when it breaks nothing for you and makes life easier for other > users? See my reply to Luca. Instead of having all applications work around freetyp2's weird include macro stuff, why not complain to the freetype2 people and have them provide just a plain old <freetype2.h> that can be included like any other header file? Sorry for being ignorant, but I have this tendency to try to solve problems at their root. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
