Bug#887597: adonthell: Detect freetype using pkg-config

[Hugh McMaster]

Hi Simon,

On Friday, 19 January 2018 8:07 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 at 11:06:09 +0000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
>> The next version of libfreetype6-dev will *not* ship the 'freetype-config'
>> script.

> Is there a version in experimental or something with this script omitted?
Not yet, but there will be.

> In that version, will AC_CHECK_FT2 in /usr/share/aclocal/freetype2 be
> modified to run pkg-config instead?
I don't see a need for this. In fact, freetype2.m4 probably won't be shipped either.

> The attached seems to work in a chroot with a symlink
> /usr/local/bin/freetype-config -> /bin/false, so hopefully it'll also
> work with the future freetype package. (Built but otherwise untested.)
Your patch looks fine to me. Thank you for looking into this so promptly.