freetype.slackbuild This breaks too many things
freetype.slackbuild has the following
# This breaks far too many things. Freetype2 developers will have to get their # punishment on someone else's distribution. zcat $CWD/freetype.illadvisederror.diff.gz | patch -p1 --verbose || exit 1 Should this line be commented out or not? Thanks |
Why do you think Pat leaves it in you think? Did you look at the content of the patch?
Eric |
Did you actually read the patch?
Code:
diff -u -r freetype-2.1.7.orig/include/freetype/freetype.h freetype-2.1.7/include/freetype/freetype.h |
Heh. Well, perhaps I should have refreshed the page before clicking "submit" ;-)
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I think it would be nice to be able to manage slackware without being a C programmer.
Ok. I have read it. I am really not stupid. I still do not know the answer to the question. |
You want to know if that patch should be left out, yet you don't want to look into the why?
In that case why don't you just trust the judgement of Patrick Volkerding? Leave that package alone. Eric Edit: or better - kill the patch, rebuild the package, and then rebuild one or more of the packages that link against freetype2 (there are many in Slackware, and more at http://SlackBuilds.org). This would be more instructive than my (somewhat) harsh original comment... |
What I am trying to find out is what Pat's judgment is on this. As you know there are a couple of other lines in the slackbuild that can be commented out.
I just found lines # This breaks far too many things. Freetype2 developers will have to get their # punishment on someone else's distribution. ambiguous What is it with you guys? You are usually so helpful. |
I don't like to point out the obvious nor to spend time on something useless.
It means what it says: the default freetype build will break many other pieces of software that link against freetype.. i.e. they will fail at the configure step. Pat includes this literal text which I can not improve on: Quote:
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You have to know that the line in the slack.build refers to the patch to get that far which I did not.
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It just dawned on me what your problem may be with that comment in the SlackBuild... you thought that leaving the line in would break things?
In that case, we had a dysfunctional conversation here... the patch fixes the breakage. Eric |
Exactly. :-)
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