Re: [Tuxmath-devel] tuxmath fails to compile without sdlttf

[Volker G. <vo...@no...>]

Tasos Latsas schrieb:
> I will also look into it, see how I can help, but I don't promise as
> pkg-config/Autoconf stuff are new to me..

Feel free to ask if you run into any problems. I'd be happy to have
a look at your *.ac / *.in files.

> > However, some distributions like Debian don't install those, maybe
> > because their build scripts were written in a time where those libraries
> > didn't provide a *.pc file. I think it would be a good idea to provide
> > bug reports for those distributions, but I didn't yet find the time
> > to do that. Any volunteers?
> 
> From a quick look here [1] only Archlinux and Fedora from the major
> distributions ship SDL_ttf.pc (i dont know if this list is up-to-date
> though). I could file those bug reports if the Autoconf solution doesn't
> work.

The distro bugreports are not about how to make things _work_; they
are about how to make things _easier_. So I recommend to file those
bugreports in any case, if you find some time for that. The bugreports
are not to solve things _now_, but to make things better in the future.

Currently, lots of projects are facing the same issues and the same
ugly workaround as you do - not because the library authors don't
provide *.pc file, but because the distributions don't install those.
That's what's making all your life unnecessarily hard. As soon as
all major distros fix those issues, many projects will be able to
throw out lots of workarounds from their configure.ac files. :-)


Greets,
Volker

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Volker Grabsch
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