Re: fontconfig and x11-links

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 03:57:23AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 02:42:52AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>  > After updating x11-links with the xorgproto changes, graphics/gd with
>  > native X on -current is trying to pull in fontconfig from pkgsrc. This
>  > cannot be right as gd itself was last updated in September and it has
>  > been fine in the meantime.
>  > 
>  > The problem isn't the traditional problem that x11-links decides to
>  > hide stuff in native X that is new enough to use with native X but not
>  > with pkgsrc X: there are fontconfig links in /usr/pkg/share/x11-links.
>  > 
>  > There must be something else wrong going on...
> 
> ok, the problem seems to be that libuuid was added to pkgsrc
> fontconfig's bl3 and there's no builtin libuuid.
> 
> Was this addition intentional?

Yes. The latest fontconfig needs libuuid, and causes other packages to
depend on it too.

We do not currently have bl3.mk files that are installed with their
binary packages, so we can only support one version of fontconfig, so
we need to support the latest one.
 Thomas