Subject: Re: pkg/19687: wm/fluxbox use (depend) Xft2 if Xft2 is installed
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Jon Buller <jon@bullers.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/05/2003 16:07:23
Julio Merino <jmmv@menta.net> wrote:
 
> I'm working on a solution for this. The buildlink2.mk needs some magic,
> because Xft2 does not compile under XFree86 3.x. The patch I'm writting
> allows users to set USE_XFT2 in their mk.conf to specify if they want xft2
> or not. This variable has no effect with XFree86 3.x, and can be tuned in
> 4.x. So any package that uses Xft2 will need to check for this variable.

Could someone fix pango for this?  A couple of weeks ago, xscreensaver
broke because xscreensaver->libglade2->gtk2+->pango->Xft2 and my
sparcstation does not have Xrender.h when building from a current
/usr/xsrc.  (And Xft2 doesn't seem to want to use the one extracted
in the work directory.)

Jon