Mike, I just saw your change to Wine's configure scripts to implement a change along the lines I raised below. Thank you very much!!
Gerald On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > I believe the Freetype configure checks are backward. > > First we check for the library being present, and only then do we > check for the freetype-config problem: > > AC_SUBST(FREETYPELIBS,"") > AC_SUBST(FREETYPEINCL,"") > AC_CHECK_LIB(freetype,FT_Init_FreeType,ft_lib=yes,ft_lib=no,$X_LIBS) > if test "$ft_lib" = "no" > then > wine_cv_msg_freetype=no > else > AC_CHECK_PROG(ft_devel,freetype-config,freetype-config,no) > > This fails to work when Freetype is installed somewhere outside of > /usr/ such as /usr/local/ with /usr/local/bin in the path. > > freetype-config would of course know where to look for the library, > but we perform the check for the library first, without taking the > output of freetype-config into concern. > > Wouldn't it make sense to revert these two changes? Gerald
