I've got GNOME2.28 nearly ready to go to unstable. One major set of
changes is that it revives fink's own fontconfig2 library (vs falling
through to x11's) and makes fink's xft2 shared (had been
static-only). This should solve a weird issue where packages tended to
link to x11's xft2 and/or fontconfig (which link to x11's freetype)
but also link to fink's freetype. So now it's possible to use
fink-supplied libs self-consistently starting at freetype and going
all the way up the dep tree. And gnome core libs strictly enforce that
in themselves.

Now that .la data is cleared, making these newly invoked in low-level
deps does not propagate all up the tree (no additional or different
inherited builddepends), so nothing that wasn't broken before should
become suddenly broken. Also as a result of .la cleaning is a general
reduction of builddepends to only those that are actually directly
used, which should make users and packagers of gnome-based packages
slightly happier. All packages are also checked to make sure they
weren't relying on that .la data (upstream sloppiness in linking), so
some existing build failures in stable/unstable are fixed.

This is totally untested on 10.[56], i386, or x86_64 and I don't know
how (if at all) the fontconfig2 or xft2 packages need to be adjusted
for these OSX's x11 variations. Please test and let me know!

cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/fink co 
experimental/dmacks/finkinfo/gnome-2.28

dan

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Daniel Macks
[email protected]
http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks


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