OK, this is my first time posting here, I think, so forgive me if I
brreak some rule about posting, I am completely new at this. I have
been trying to get ahold of the maintainer of the glib2 atk1 pango1-xft2
and gtk+2 packages the gnome-core person. Yesterday I learned this was
a guy named Keith, but I never heard anything back. I read on this list
that among others, the gtk+2 packages were really old. looking at the
source numbers for myself, 2.2 avail on fink I think and 2.6.2 avail on
the gtk ftp site, having heard nothing from this person, I took it upon
myself and checked out the experimental tree and built some packages for
myself, using glib-2.6.2 atk-1.9.0 and gtk+-2.6.2 sources, using the
old ones as templates.(Kept Pango1-XFT2 as was) I have somewhat of an
idea what I am doing so any input would be welcomed. I posted to
Fink-Users last night and got a reply that I should post here for this
matter instead. When building pango1-xft2 I had to manually build
freetype-2.1.9, render, xrender, and fontconfig-2.2.99 and install them
into usr/X11R6. I read that this is because the version of fontconfig
distributed with the 4.4.0 sources of XFree86 are so old, that it would
cause a problem. And indeed it did. For after I made those manual
adjustments, plus building and installing expat-1.95.8 to /usr/X11R6
prefix it went off without a hitch. Now It was also told me by that
list that that type of "manual hacking" is against Fink's policy. So is
it ok with Fink's policies if I create packages for render xrender and
fontconfig to be installed in /usr/X11R6 instead of fink's directory?
(/sw for me) Normally I would think it was, but I know that Fink's
XFree86 is installed into that directory, the only reason I don't use
that is because I already had XDarwin on the 4.4.0 sources Downloaded,
and on my slow machine compiling XFree takes like almost 4 hours I
think, (awhile anyway). To sum it all up though, I am working on the
10.2-gcc3.3 unstable tree with OS X 10.2.8, if that helps, and the other
packages seem to build fine, except I think there is one bug I am still
trying to work out, and I am still learning the ConfigParams, so I know
I have something wrong because I get gcc errors with unrecognized
options `-pthread' and `-03' (glib2 I believe).
Another thing I was wondering is if I would just make a fontconfig
package for the normal installation of fink's directory, since there is
a Freetype2 package also for fink. But if that were the case would I
also have to update fink's Freetype2 package to build the 2.1.9 sources,
instead of the 2.1.3?
Again if this is the wrong board I apologize.
Mike S
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