Re: pkg/48919

[David Sainty <dave%dtsp.co.nz@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/48919; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Sainty <dave%dtsp.co.nz@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: Philip Miller <sighoya%gmail.com@localhost>, 
pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/48919
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:27:02 +1200

 On 26/06/14 00:10, Philip Miller wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/48919; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Philip Miller <sighoya%gmail.com@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, David Sainty 
 > <dave%dtsp.co.nz@localhost>,
 >   dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: pkg/48919
 > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:07:40 +0200
 >
 >   On 06/25/2014 10:40 AM, David Sainty wrote:
 >   > The following reply was made to PR pkg/48919; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >   >
 >   > From: David Sainty <dave%dtsp.co.nz@localhost>
 >   > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 >   > Cc: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>, 
 > pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost,
 >   >   gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 > sighoya%gmail.com@localhost
 >   > Subject: Re: pkg/48919
 >   > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:19:51 +1200
 >   >
 >   >   On 25/06/14 18:20, David Holland wrote:
 >   >   > The following reply was made to PR pkg/48919; it has been noted by 
 > GNATS.
 >   >   >
 >   >   > From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 >   >   > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 >   >   > Cc:
 >   >   > Subject: Re: pkg/48919
 >   >   > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:15:03 +0000
 >   >   >
 >   >   >   On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 01:20:00PM +0000, Philip Miller wrote:
 >   >   >    >  >> What do you see for: make show-var VARNAME=X11_TYPE
 >   >   >    >  native
 >   >   >    >  and another variable
 >   >   >    >  X11BASE=/usr
 >   >   >
 >   >   >   If you're using native X, which includes freetype2 and fontconfig, 
 > you
 >   >   >   shouldn't also be using the pkgsrc ones; this causes confusion.
 >   >   >
 >   >
 >   >   Actually, you raise a good point...
 >   >
 >   >   Philip, why is fontconfig being built here?  Is it a dependency of
 >   >   something else?
 >   And this is the problem. fontconfig/freetype2 is required by other packages
 >   many graphical applications like qpdfview, which depends on harfbuzz and
 >   harfbuzz fails, cause of freetype/fontconfig.
 >   Also graphical applications, which need gtk2, which depends on
 >   pango->cairo, which fails, cause of freetype/fontconfig.
 >   Also racket depends on pango->cairo.
 >   
 >   I don't see the solution to install xorg-modular, cause the option of
 >   X11_TYPE=native exists. Some Time ago, I have build graphical apps on
 >   netbsd with native xorg, and there were no problems. There must be a
 >   solution.
 >   
 
 The failure is on Linux, yes?  (based on your PR)
 
 It's a little unfortunate this is coming up in the freeze, because I 
 think fixing this properly may require built-in support for libpng, 
 which doesn't feel like something that should happen in the freeze. 
 Also, I happen to have no available way of testing the problem myself...
 
 You could try adding an unconditional:
 
     .include "../../graphics/png/buildlink3.mk"
 
 ... into "graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk".  But I'm worried that you 
 will end up with applications that link with both the native libpng.so 
 (via freetype2's .so) and the Pkgsrc libpng.so - perhaps with bad 
 interactions; or possibly a native libfreetype.a compiled with native 
 png.h but linked with Pkgsrc libpng.a - again perhaps with bad 
 interactions.  These mixes may well work fine - but then again they 
 might not.
 
 It's the risk of these bad interactions that makes me think that 
 built-in libpng support is needed.