[cairo] --disable-freetype configure switch gone?

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Mon Dec 22 23:20:14 PST 2008


Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Dec 22, 2008, at 10:38, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 
>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> I get this warning when configuring cairo 1.8.6 with --disable-freetype:
>>>
>>>
>>> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-freetype
>>>
>>>
>>> The configure script seems to just use pkg-config (or freetype-
>>> config). Does this mean there is now no way to compile cairo without
>>> freetype support when freetype is in fact installed?
>>
>> I believe it's replaced with --enable-ft.  configure --help confirms
>> that.
> 
> Indeed! Thank you. I had not read the entire text of configure --help
> before sending, just searched it for "freetype" and not found anything,
> since the search was case-sensitive...
> 
> I also had grepped the entire source for "freetype" (case-sensitive) to
> see if I could find any mention of the former --enable-freetype option
> and didn't see anything. I had hoped the ChangeLog, at least, would have
> noted the change.

It had to go during my major build system rewrite.  "cairo-XYZ" is not
controlled by "--enable-XYZ".  FreeType was the only one violating this rule
before.  The changes were so many that I forgot to put this in the ChangeLog.

behdad



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