Re: [ft-devel] Conditionalize Bzip2-compressed font support for inflexible dynamic linker platforms

2011-04-18 Thread mpsuzuki
Dear Werner, Just I've finished 2 international meetings. On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:37:33 +0200 (CEST) Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: You must have a special procedure in mind which I haven't grasped yet. I know nothing about the linker on Macs, I just wonder why zlib is handled differently

Re: [ft-devel] Conditionalize Bzip2-compressed font support for inflexible dynamic linker platforms

2011-04-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
During the business trip, I was trying to reproduce the trouble that Dave Viner got in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2006-05/msg00035.html , and I found I made an overestimation about bad impact of the chained dependency. Please let me explain. [...] Thanks for the analysis!

[ft-devel] Conditionalize Bzip2-compressed font support for inflexible dynamic linker platforms

2011-04-01 Thread suzuki toshiya
Hi all, The latest FreeType2 on GIT repository supports Bzip2-compressed font files which are used in Ubuntu GNU/Linux platform. It uses Bzip2 library out of FreeType2, so FreeType2 with this feature has new inter-library dependency (older does not depends on libbz2 but newer depends). There can