On 1/6/06, Matthieu Herrb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I missed part of the discussion about your previous patch that already > tried to remove -lfreetype from Libs in cairo.pc, but I think its wrong: > > - I don't understand how an application can use cairo libs without > linking explicitely against freetype, since some cairo libs call > freetype functions directly. > > - one problem is that cairo provides several libs, with different > dependencies, but only one .pc file. So it has to take all dependencies > in account. > > - the other problem is that OpenBSD doesn't like to link depencencies > into a library. But this cannot be solved by pkg-config. We need to > patch libtool or automake to ignore '-l' options in pkg-config Libs when > producing a library instead of an executable. > > So I think my patch was more correct. But I'll let the real ports > developpers decide.
I understand perfectly, but then cairo.pc is still broken, because cairo also links to png, X11, z, glitz, etc. Humm, wait... what if we Change "Requires.private" to "Requires". Yes, that seems to do it! Could it be _the_ fix? Eric.
