HEADS UP: freetype2 upgrade

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Tue Mar 16 18:43:45 PST 2004


On Wednesday 17 March 2004 01:26, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> This is a HEADS UP to maintainers of ports that use freetype2.  The
> recent freetype2 upgrade brings in an internal API change.  You may
> start noticing ports fail to build with an error saying you did not
> include ft2build.h.  I have added a CHANGES entry for this problem, but
> just to sum it up, if a source file includes freetype/freetype.h, you
> must replace that with:
>
> #include <ft2build.h>
> #include FT_FREETYPE_H

It's noteworthy that freetype/freetype.h is probably used by many ports in 
configure checks for freetype.

One example is graphics/xpdf. Patching those configure scripts should often be 
simple though, example patch for xpdf is attached.

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