Re: font stuff

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 08:09:56PM +0000, Robert Swindells wrote:
> > 
> > Have edited out all the tests in fonts/fontconfig/builtin.mk
> > 
> > USE_BUILTIN.fontconfig= yes
> > MAKEVARS+=              USE_BUILTIN.fontconfig
> > 
> > % make show-var VARNAME=USE_BUILTIN.fontconfig
> > no
>
> It's transitive, so if it doesn't like the freetype2 version it won't
> use fontconfig either.
>
> There's some debugging hooks I put in some years back for figuring out
> what's causing unwanted builtin decisions; might want to give that a
> try.

Ok, what do I do?

I have also tried putting in some .info lines to print out variables.

> It's not uncommon for the builtin.mk logic that tries to deduce
> library versions to fail.

The library versions all look correct.