[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6609) 1.14.1-beta1 gtk2 configure

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Jason Short wrote:

> --On Sunday, October 26, 2003 2:06 PM -0800 Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa
> <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Jason Short wrote:
> >
> >> If this is an FT problem, then shouldn't a check for FT be done before
> >> the GTK2 check?
> >>
> >> But all of this is done by the provided GTK2 macros.  Do we have the most
> >> up-to-date version of this macro file?
> >
> > You do not understand. pkg-config takes care of the library path and
> > link compiler options. The client doesn't check for FT like it doesn't
> > check for X11R6. It is not supposed to. That is platform specific and
> > part of the GTK+ 2.0 implementation.
>
> Err, right.  But it still means that the GTK2 macros are failing since
> they're trying to compile FT code without looking for FT.

Complain to the GTK+ developers then. ;-)

We should not check for such things.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa