Re: [Lasi-devel] Things that need doing before our next libLASi release.

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2007-01-28 14:08-0800 Ed Trager wrote:

> Hi, Alan,
>
>> 
>> Could somebody with access to freetype-2.2+ check this please?  You have 
>> to
>> specify -DHAVE_FT2_2PLUS=ON on the cmake command line to get this to work
>> for now (see below for a more sophisticated approach).
>> 
>
> I have a FreeType 2.2+ setup.  However, I would really prefer to see
> that CMake does automatic detection of the Freetype version.
>
> There will be too many users out there who want to use LASi  or PLPlot
> who won't have a clue about FreeType.  And why should they?

I agree with all you say, but please check basic HAVE_FT2_2PLUS macro works
for the freetype2.2+ case which I don't have access to.  It _should_ work
since it is such simple logic, but you never really know until you test.
Also, this simple HAVE_FT2_2PLUS logic should be good enough for developers
now to get on with whatever they want to do without hacking the code
for the freetype2.2+ case.

Once the simple HAVE_FT2_2PLUS logic is proved to work for the FreeType 2.2+
case, it would be great if you added a test to set the CMake parameter
HAVE_FT2_2PLUS to ON when appropriate rather than asking user to set it. See
one of my items in the ToDo list for the release.  Note, I don't have the
C++ skills to set up such tests myself.

Alan
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