On 5/04/2025 12:34 am, Felix Salfelder wrote:
On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 10:32:37PM +1100, Hugh McMaster wrote:
Previously, packages linking with freetype would check for and linked
against bzip2 manually. That's no longer necessary, with bzip2 finally
adding support for pkg-config.
Fantastic.
Sadly, some projects rely on the cutting edge without much need for it,
thus burning bridges gaining very little. A more adequate approach would
have been to
try {
pkgconfig bzip2
} catch not_found_error {
warning "using fallback bz2 config"
// this has been working for many decades.
LIBS += -lbz2
}
in a relevant spot.Perhaps not a freetype packaging issue, and not your
fault. Just my 2ct.
Yes, trying pkg-config and falling back to manual linking or calling
*_config scripts is the correct approach. I've submitted many such
patches upstream for various libraries (freetype, unixodbc, ICU).
Anyway, I'm glad everything has worked out.
Kind regards,
Hugh
