Hi,

On: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:16:13 -0400,
    David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:26:27PM +0200, Rene Rebe wrote:
> 
> >as mentioned weeks ago, current XFree CVS does not install a
> >fontconfig.pc anymore (it did up to 4.3.99.6 or so when the fontconfig
> >merge happend).
> >
> >This time a patch is attached (hereby relicensed to BSD, X11 whatever
> >you like - as usual).
> >
> >In my personal project I would do it cleaner - but it is in the
> >XFree86-way like implemented in Xcursor and Xft.
> 
> Well, not quite -- there's no reason to duplicate files already in the
> source tree as your patch does, or to hardcode values that are defined
> elsewhere.  That's not usually the XFree86 way.

Ah yes those do not have an seperate .pc - but still:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/xc/lib$ find -name config-subst
./Xft/config/config-subst
./fontconfig/config/config-subst
./Xcursor/config-subst

and the difinitions what to SUBST in the Imakefile.

> Anyway, I've committed a fix for this problem, based on what was in
> XFree86 4.3 (rather than relicensing the GPL'd version you sent :-).
> 
> Just a suggestion regarding licensing of patches: The best way to avoid
> all possible confusion is to make the licensing unambiguous.  I often
> go straight to the patch attachments, and that only has a GPL on it.

Ok  - the next time I rip it off before ...

I there a better way to send patches? [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to be a
/dev/null target (mostly get lost) - and on this list I normally also
do not get responses ...

> Thanks for your report.

Thanks for fixing it.

> David

Sincerely yours,
  René Rebe
    - ROCK Linux stable release maintainer

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