Re: inconsistent freetype2/fontconfig/libXft

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

> How's
>          # If the buildlink prefix is already set, it is pointing to
>          # the builtin version. Clear it; otherwise the buildlink
>          # logic will blindly use it and we'll buildlink the builtin
>          # version regardless of the USE_BUILTIN setting, and then
>          # things break. XXX: this is a hack.
>
> ?
>
> There's another comment above the loop that explains what the whole
> thing is doing; if that's not good enough, it should be improved too.
>
> (I wrote the whole thing some years back and there's a decent chance
> I'm the only person who understands it :-| )

That's ok, except that I would like to see the point that the right
answer is the pkg version more in your face, despite being above,
because the whole scheme is surprising to find out it exists.   Once you
think about it for 10s, it's obviously necessary and the right approach.
But until this discussion I had no idea.