On Jul 5, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Andrew Fernandes wrote: > >> This port already depends on the gd2 port, which depends on the freetype >> port, so shouldn't freetype support just be always enabled, rather than >> making it a variant? Wouldn't that be simpler? > > Yes and no; the default configure script does not look for freetype unless > you explicitly tell it to. So you have to add the "--with-freetype" flag. > And, for clarity, if you add the flag, you should have freetype, I thought.
Absolutely. My point was: why do this in a variant? Why no do it all the time, since it will not require additional dependencies? >> Note that this is not an openmaintainer port, so you should not make changes >> to it without the maintainer's permission, and should instead file a ticket >> with your proposed patch. If you did that and Landon didn't respond, you >> should reference the ticket number in your commit message as usual. > > Yes, you're right, of course... my apologies. > > I could have sworn that it said "openmaintainer"... but I think I had too > many Portfiles open in my editor and appear to have misread. > > I won't do that again (or at least, I'll double-check!) - I know that with > this particular port my policy violation is benign, but know that there is a > good reason not to do it in general! _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
