Subject: Re: Xft2 buildlink2 patch for xfree-current (coming 4.3)
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/18/2003 16:45:58
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 07:11:25AM +1000, Rene Hexel wrote:
[..]
> This probably works, but it has the disadvantage that packages will no
> longer be able to override BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.Xft2 (e.g., if they need a
> newer version or a specific version of Xft2).
>
> What about this:
>
> ...
> _XFT2_DEPENDS= Xft2>=2.0.1
> ...
> # If we depend on the package, depend on the latest version
> # with a library major bump.
> _XFT2_DEPENDS:= Xft2>=2.1
> ...
> BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.Xft2?= ${_XFT2_DEPENDS}
> ...
Hmm, I only copied the code from freetype2, so if that would be better then
we also need to change that.
Bernd