Re: inconsistent freetype2/fontconfig/libXft

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

Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost> writes:

>> Some time ago I hit a problem where I'd get
>> 
>>    % make show-var VARNAME=USE_BUILTIN.fontconfig
>>    no
>>    % make show-var VARNAME=BUILDLINK_PREFIX.fontconfig
>>    /usr/pkg
>> 
>> which is all wrong and leads to the wrong files being buildlinked.
> I still fail to see what's wrong with that.

That's where I was.   What you probably are missing is

  package A depends on package B

  package A's builtin is good enough per A's rules

  package B's builtin is NOT goood enough per B's rules

  B is forced to pkg (correct)

  a rule that I didn't know about but is obviously sensible on hearing
  it says that if A dependson B and B is pkg, then A must be pkg


and as I understand it, A's prefix was bulitin and didn't get forced to
pkg.  There may have been an error in any of these examples (including
mine!), making it even harder to follow.