[gentoo-dev] libgd & freetype

[gentoo-dev] libgd & freetype

[Vitaly Kushneriuk]

libgd-1.8.3-r2 needs freetype-1.3.1 and will not compile with
freetype-2.0.5
they use different directories and install different libraries:
        /usr/include/freetype  /usr/include/freetype2/freetype
        /usr/lib/libttf.*      /usr/lib/libfreetype.*
IMHO freetype-2.0.5 should be called freetype2-2.0.5, as this is a 
different package

Re: [gentoo-dev] libgd & freetype

[Grant Goodyear]

> libgd-1.8.3-r2 needs freetype-1.3.1 and will not compile with
> freetype-2.0.5
> they use different directories and install different libraries:
>         /usr/include/freetype  /usr/include/freetype2/freetype
>         /usr/lib/libttf.*      /usr/lib/libfreetype.*
> IMHO freetype-2.0.5 should be called freetype2-2.0.5, as this is a 
> different package

You're probably right that freetype2 should be a separate package.
In any event, thanks for the bug report!  I came across that error
myself recently, and drobbins has confirmed the bug.  He promises
that it will be fixed in the next release of Portage.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] libgd & freetype

[Mikael Hallendal]

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ons 2001-12-12 klockan 17.27 skrev Vitaly Kushneriuk:
> libgd-1.8.3-r2 needs freetype-1.3.1 and will not compile with
> freetype-2.0.5
> they use different directories and install different libraries:
>         /usr/include/freetype  /usr/include/freetype2/freetype
>         /usr/lib/libttf.*      /usr/lib/libfreetype.*
> IMHO freetype-2.0.5 should be called freetype2-2.0.5, as this is a 
> different package

It is not a different package, just a newer version of a package which
happends to be incompatible with the previous version.

The reason they are installing in /usr/include/freetype and
/usr/include/freetype2 is because the user should be able to have them
both installed at the same time.

This should be fixed by having dependencies like 
freetype >= 1.3, < 2.0 (or whatever syntax we came up with). I'm not
sure of the current status of that.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal
 
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Mikael Hallendal
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden


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Re: [gentoo-dev] libgd & freetype

[Vitaly Kushneriuk]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 15:20, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> ons 2001-12-12 klockan 17.27 skrev Vitaly Kushneriuk:
> > libgd-1.8.3-r2 needs freetype-1.3.1 and will not compile with
> > freetype-2.0.5
> > they use different directories and install different libraries:
> >         /usr/include/freetype  /usr/include/freetype2/freetype
> >         /usr/lib/libttf.*      /usr/lib/libfreetype.*
> > IMHO freetype-2.0.5 should be called freetype2-2.0.5, as this is a 
> > different package
> 
> It is not a different package, just a newer version of a package which
> happends to be incompatible with the previous version.
> 
> The reason they are installing in /usr/include/freetype and
> /usr/include/freetype2 is because the user should be able to have them
> both installed at the same time.
By the same reason, it should be named freetype-1... and freetype2-2....
So that freetype-1 will not be unmerged when installing freetype-2,
when/if, we add auto-unmerge option to oprtage, etc. or interfere in
some other way.
Adding lib main version to the package name is the standard way of
dealing with incompatible lib version, so that they can be
installed/removed separately.

> 
> This should be fixed by having dependencies like 
> freetype >= 1.3, < 2.0 (or whatever syntax we came up with). I'm not
> sure of the current status of that.
> 
> Regards,
>   Mikael Hallendal
>  
> -- 
> 
> Mikael Hallendal
> Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
> CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden
> 

Re: [gentoo-dev] libgd & freetype

[Vitaly Kushneriuk]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 15:20, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> It is not a different package, just a newer version of a package which
> happends to be incompatible with the previous version.
> 
> The reason they are installing in /usr/include/freetype and
> /usr/include/freetype2 is because the user should be able to have them
> both installed at the same time.
> 
> This should be fixed by having dependencies like 
> freetype >= 1.3, < 2.0 (or whatever syntax we came up with). I'm not
> sure of the current status of that.
The why do we have libxml AND libxml2?
And this only one of the many examples.
As I said, incompatible version of library usualy made a separate
package.
So I think freetype-2 should be made freetype2-2

TIA