Re: pkg/48919

[Philip Miller <sighoya%gmail.com@localhost>]

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>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/48919
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 22:27:22 +0200

 On 06/26/2014 03:20 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: 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 13:15:02 +1200
 >
 >   On 26/06/14 00:10, Philip Miller wrote:
 >   >   >   > 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.
 >   >   >   >
 >   >
 >   >   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.
 >   >
 >   
 >   It is necessarily the case that X11_TYPE=native cannot be guaranteed to
 >   work forever.  If, for example, libX11 grows a new feature F, and then
 >   application A requires feature F, then A cannot be built with
 >   X11_TYPE=native until the native X11 libraries are updated (not just
 >   patched, which is more commonly what happens with base system updates).
 >   Pkgsrc will eventually outgrow the native system unless it has a more
 >   extreme upgrade.
 >   
 Does this mean, that the native support is thrown out in future?
 >   That might be an aspect of the problem here, where perhaps the
 >   up-to-date version of cairo is demanding a later version of fontconfig
 >   than is on the native system.  But the root cause of builds failing is
 >   that native freetype2 is not being handled properly, and any package on
 >   your system that attempts to use freetype might run into the same trouble.
 >   
 I think too, cause the native and the pkgsrc version of freetype are the 
 same, in may case.
 >   > From: Thomas Klausner<wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
 >   > Subject: Re: pkg/48919
 >   > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:36:01 +0200
 >   >
 >   >   I'm against adding builtin support for more packages in general, and
 >   >   for png in particular as well, since pkgsrc contains the latest
 >   >   version and many Linux distributions are far behind. This will just
 >   >   lead to more bug reports...
 >   >    Thomas
 >   
 >   With that in mind, I think we can't safely make use of this system's
 >   native freetype.  That suggests we should go in the other direction and
 >   not try to use native freetype in the first place.  Possibly the
 >   freetype2/builtin.mk should detect if native libraries used libpng, and
 >   inhibit using native libraries in that case?
 This sounds complicated. Which native libraries use libpng in my case?
 >   Philip, if you prefer not to use modular X entirely, you could
 >   presumably resolve at least the build problems manually in a more
 >   fine-grained manner via adding to mk.conf:
 >   
 >   PREFER.freetype2=pkgsrc
 >   PREFER.fontconfig=pkgsrc
 >   
 This does'nt help, cause fontconfig fails to build.
 
 checking for FREETYPE... no
 configure: error: Package requirements (freetype2) were not met:
 
 Package 'libpng', required by 'freetype2', not found
 
 Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
 installed software in a non-standard prefix.
 
 Alternatively, you may set the environment variables FREETYPE_CFLAGS
 and FREETYPE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
 See the pkg-config man page for more details.
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