[vdr] [PATCH] Use pkg-config to find freetype/fontconfig flags

[Klaus Schmidinger]

On 03/07/08 08:44, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit:
>> On 03/06/08 20:37, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The attached patch makes VDR's Makefile use pkgconfig for finding libs and 
>>> include dirs of freetype and fontconfig instead of making assumptions.
>> How about putting that stuff at the same place everywhere?
>> Why must it have to be somewhere else on every system?
> 
> If you use packages provided by your linux distribution, usually include 
> files are in /usr/include and libraries are in /usr/lib, while if you 
> compile the source tarball yourself they go in /usr/local/include and 
> /usr/local/lib or wherever you decide to put them (if, e.g., you're 
> trying another version while you're keeping the old one, though I don't 
> know if pkg-config will handle this case)

The root of the whole problem here IMHO is freetype2's weird way of
handling its include files. I never understood why they had to use these
strange macros for the includes. An application using freetype2 shouldn't
have to add -I/usr/include/freetype2 to its include path. It should be
possible to do

#include <freetype2.h>

and the rest should be handled inside that file. No weird macros, no
extra include paths.


BTW: whether an include file is in /usr/include or /usr/local/include doesn't
matter - it is already found in both cases, without any extra effort. And
the one in /usr/local/include takes precedence, just as one would ecpect.

Klaus