Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org and Xft ?
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Michael Rauch <mrauch@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/28/2005 18:59:40
Hi, 

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:53:50AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2005, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> I think it comes with its own freetype library. (OpenOffice is very bad at
> not using existing libraries and tools and is one of the reasons it is so
> bloated and hard to build -- does anyone know if there is recent work at
> getting it to use outside libraries and tools?)

yes, version 2 of OpenOffice.org has configure flags for all external
libraries to use the system ones.


Michael