Re: How to get pkgsrc to use builtin/native libraries?

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

> I am attempting to build CDE on NetBSD/vax 11.0 . CDE seems to require
> fontconfig, and it obviously requires Motif. Motif in turn requires
> Xft2, which itself requires fontconfig. Building fontconfig is
> impossible due to the Python dependency.

You should ask this on pkgsrc-users@ -- that's where all the pkgsrc people
hang out...

> I would be able to build Motif if I could convince pkgsrc to use the
> libXft included with the base system. For some reason, pkgsrc refuses.
> I have checked the version numbers; `2.3.8nb1` is required, and `make
> show-var VARNAME=BUILTIN_PKG.libXft` returns `2.3.9`. This should
> work, right? `2.3.9` is greater than `2.3.8nb1`!

Yes, but on 11.0_RC3, the built-in FreeType is very old:

```
$ pwd
/usr/pkgsrc/x11/motif
$ make show-vars VARNAMES="BUILTIN_PKG.fontconfig BUILTIN_PKG.freetype2"
fontconfig-2.15.0		# OK 
freetype2-2.10.4		# too old.
$
```

`graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk' has:

```
BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.freetype2+=	freetype2>=2.13.0
BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.freetype2+=	freetype2>=2.13.2nb1
```

and `graphics/freetype2/options.mk' also has:

```
PKG_SUPPORTED_OPTIONS=	brotli png
```

but, the built-in FreeType is compiled with neither (so, no coloured emojis
with the system FreeType), so this requirement isn't satisfied either.

Try this patch (pkgsrc-2026Q1):

```
diff -urN pkgsrc.orig/graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk pkgsrc/graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk
--- pkgsrc.orig/graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk	2024-08-18 19:54:53.000000000 +0000
+++ pkgsrc/graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk	2026-04-23 08:37:04.994335954 +0000
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 .if !defined(FREETYPE2_BUILDLINK3_MK)
 FREETYPE2_BUILDLINK3_MK:=

-BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.freetype2+=	freetype2>=2.13.0
-BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.freetype2+=	freetype2>=2.13.2nb1
+BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.freetype2+=	freetype2>=2.10.0
+BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.freetype2+=	freetype2>=2.10.2nb1
 BUILDLINK_PKGSRCDIR.freetype2?=		../../graphics/freetype2
 BUILDLINK_INCDIRS.freetype2?=		include/freetype2

diff -urN pkgsrc.orig/graphics/freetype2/options.mk pkgsrc/graphics/freetype2/options.mk
--- pkgsrc.orig/graphics/freetype2/options.mk	2023-11-09 20:10:32.000000000 +0000
+++ pkgsrc/graphics/freetype2/options.mk	2026-04-23 08:37:24.601154154 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

 PKG_OPTIONS_VAR=	PKG_OPTIONS.freetype2
 PKG_SUPPORTED_OPTIONS=	brotli png
-PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS=	brotli png
+PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS=

 .include "../../mk/bsd.options.mk"

```

-RVP