Thank you very much. That's very helpful. cheers,
On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Hugh McMaster <hugh.mcmas...@outlook.com> wrote: > Hi René, > > Thanks for looking on this bug. > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:19:20 +0200, René Dudfield wrote: > > I wonder if you know how portable pkg-config is for this? > > > > Will using pkg-config work for getting config on older versions of > Debian? > > > > Or will we have to try and use both of the scripts? freetype-config for > > older, and pkg-config for newer? > > pkg-config has been part of Debian-based distros for many years. > The current release 0.29-4 is also part of Stretch, with Jessie using > 0.28-1. > > Also, freetype-config has been deprecated for many years, with pkg-config > being the preferred method of obtaining CFLAGS and libs for several years > now. > > In fact, freetype-config has been a wrapper for pkg-config since February > 2017. > > FreeType has also had pkg-config support since version 2.1.5 was released > in 2003, so > pkg-config support is comfortably available everywhere. > > In addition, freetype-config(1) has recommended developers use pkg-config > since March 2014. > > Hope that helps. > > Hugh
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