HEADS UP: freetype2 upgrade

Doug Barton DougB at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 26 23:43:45 PST 2004


On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> 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.

I did this slightly differently, but it's fixed now, thanks.

Doug

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